Donacaula niloticus
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Donacaula niloticus is a butterfly from the family of Crambiden ( Crambidae ).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 14 to 32 millimeters (according to another source: males 17 to 20 millimeters; females 23 to 28 millimeters, in North Africa up to 35 millimeters). The labial palps are extremely long. Both sexes have pale ocher forewings. In the males, a dark brown line runs parallel to the outer edge of the wing from the costal edge to the middle of the wing. The forewings of the females have a white discal patch and the apex is not pointed. The species is very variable and the geographical populations are characterized by certain differences in habitus . Specimens with a brownish, longitudinal center line are called Forma nigrolineata .
The genital fittings of the males are similar to those of the other Donacaula species, but the subteguminal process is reduced.
In females, the corpus bursae is spherical. The ductus bursae is longer and slimmer and the ostium is more sclerotized than in Donacaula mucronella . The corpus bursae has a shape similar to that of D. niloticus .
distribution
Donacaula niloticus is widespread in southeastern Europe, where the species is found in Romania ( Dobrudscha , Năvodari ), Greece ( Thasos ; Skala Potamias, east coast; north of Skala Potamias), in southern Russia ( Taganrog ) and in Bulgaria (Kozuch bei Petritsch ).
Outside of Europe, the species is found in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt). In the Middle East there is evidence from Israel, Turkey ( Kuşadası , Diyarbakır Province ), Cyprus , Georgia ( Lagodechi ), Uzbekistan ( Margʻilon ), Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan ( Oral ). Further to the east, the species is also native to Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia ( Hofuf ), northern India ( Faisalabad ), Turkmenistan (Tura) and China ( Gansu province ).
biology
The pre-imaginal stages of the species are unknown. Butterflies were caught in May and July.
Systematics
The following synonyms are known from the literature :
- Schoenobius alpherakii Staudinger , 1874
- Schoenobius vescerellus Chrétien , 1910
- Schoenobius argophthalmus Meyrick , 1933
- Schoenobius alpherakii f. nigrolineata Popescu-Gorj & Draghia , 1968
etymology
Donacaula niloticus was described from a town on the edge of the Nile Delta. The river gave it its name.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Patrice Leraut: Zygaenids, Pyralids 1 . In: Moths of Europe . 1st edition. Volume III. NAP Editions, 2012, ISBN 978-2-913688-15-5 , pp. 506 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Barry Goater, Matthias Nuss, Wolfgang Speidel: Pyraloidea I (Crambidae, Acentropinae, Evergestinae, Heliothelinae, Schoenobiinae, Scopariinae) . In: P. Huemer, O. Karsholt, L. Lyneborg (eds.): Microlepidoptera of Europe . 1st edition. tape 4 . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2005, ISBN 87-88757-33-1 , pp. 119 (English).
- ↑ Donacaula niloticus in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved September 16, 2015
- ↑ Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ). Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Zeller , PC (1867): Choreutidae and Crambina, collected in Egypt, by the Rev. OP Cambridge, January to April, 1864; determined and the New Species described by Professor Zeller; the German Descriptions translated into English by HT Stainton, FLS The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Third Series 5: pp. 461-466 and panel XXIV
- ↑ Donacaula niloticus (ZELLER, 1867). Lepiforum e. V .: Determination aid of the Lepiforum for the butterfly species found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland., Accessed on September 16, 2015 .
