Hatchet red ram
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The hatchet-ram or hatchet-blood droplet ( Zygaena loti ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the ram family (Zygaenidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 27 to 30 millimeters. They have yellowish-gray (females) to gray-blue (males) forewings, on which five red spots can be found, some of which flow into one another. The spot on the wing tip actually consists of the fifth and sixth spots that have grown into one another and is shaped like a hatchet. The hind wings are red and have a black border. The wings are rounded and the legs are white. There are seldom hints of an abdominal girdle in male animals.
The caterpillars are about 20 millimeters long. They are olive green or yellow green in color and have two yellow and two black points on each segment. In some animals, the black dots of the neighboring segments come very close. They have short, dirty white hair in clusters.
Occurrence
The animals occur in southern and central Europe , in the Altai and in Western Asia on warm, sunny limestone grasslands , flowering slopes, forest edges, clearings and dry grasslands in higher elevations.
Way of life
Flight and caterpillar times
The moths fly from mid-June to July. They appear two to three weeks earlier than other blood droplets because they have adapted to the flowering time of the elderberry and privet . The caterpillars can be found from August and after wintering until May.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed mainly on horseshoe clover ( Hippocrepis comosa ), common horn clover ( Lotus corniculatus ), red vetch ( Securigera varia ) and other butterflies (Faboideae).
development
The females lay their yellow eggs in single layers on the leaves of the forage plants. The hatching caterpillars overwinter and pupate in spring in a white, silvery, firm cocoon . The pupa is black-brown and has a yellow abdomen.
Hazard and protection
- Red list FRG: 3 (endangered).
synonym
- achilleae ESPER, 1780
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Heiko Bellmann : The new cosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 , p. 56.
- ^ A b Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Moths. Weirdos and hawkers. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1 .
- ↑ a b Zygaena loti. Butterflies-Deutschlands.de, Christian Tolasch, accessed on November 7, 2006 .
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-89624-110-8
literature
- Günter Ebert (Ed.): The Butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 3, Moths I (Root Borers (Hepialidae), Wood Borers (Cossidae), Ram (Zygaenidae), Slug Moth (Limacodidae), Sack Bearer (Psychidae), Window Spot (Thyrididae)), Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-800-13472-1
- Manfred Koch , Wolfgang Heinicke: We identify butterflies. 3. Edition. Neumann, Radebeul 1991, ISBN 3-7402-0092-8 .
- CM Naumann, GM Tarmann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Photos and taxonomy
- www.schmetterling-raupe.de
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Ian Kimber: Guide to the moths of Ireland and Great Britain (English)
- Photo of the caterpillar
- Zygaena loti at Fauna Europaea
