Dark brown clematis spanner

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Dark brown clematis spanner
Dark brown clematis (Horisme corticata)

Dark brown clematis ( Horisme corticata )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Spanner (Geometridae)
Subfamily : Larentiinae
Genre : Horisme
Type : Dark brown clematis spanner
Scientific name
Horisme corticata
( Treitschke , 1835)

The dark brown clematis ( Horisme corticata ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of the spanners (Geometridae).

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 26 to 28 millimeters and have dark brown forewings. The midfield is bounded on both sides by strong black transverse lines, which do not, however, extend to the front edge. The middle field is strongly narrowed towards the inner edge. The black graduation line at the apex is often connected to the outer boundary of the midfield. The hind wings are brownish, not lightened at the wing leading edge and have a clear black central transverse line and numerous other indistinct transverse lines. Both wings have a barely interrupted hemline.

Subspecies

  • Horisme corticata corticata Treitschke, 1835
  • Horisme corticata bretschneideri Koch, 1948

Synonyms

  • Horisme alutacearia Boisduval, 1840
  • Acidalia corticata Treitschke, 1835
  • Phibalapterxy corticata

distribution

The dark brown clematis was first found as an eastern species in 1937 near Dresden . The species migrated from Bohemia through the Elbe Valley to Germany and is currently considered an area expander in all of the new federal states.

In Europe, the species is distributed from Denmark via northern and eastern Germany, Poland , Austria , Hungary , Romania and from central Italy via the Balkans and Asia Minor to the Caucasus and southern Russia.

Way of life

The food plants of the larvae include clematis ( Clematis vitalba ), Italian clematis ( Clematis viticella ) and the great anemone ( Anemone sylvestris ).

Flight and caterpillar times

The dark brown clematis flies in two generations from mid-April to early July and from late July to late September. The caterpillars can be seen from August to September (first generation) and from June to July (second generation).

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Malcolm J. Scoble: Geometrid moths of the world. A catalog (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 1999, ISBN 0-643-06304-8
  2. ↑ Horisme corticata (Treitschke 1835). Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on January 3, 2008 .
  3. ↑ a b Manfred Koch , Wolfgang Heinicke, Bernd Müller: We determine butterflies. Volume 4: Spanner. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Neumann, Leipzig / Radebeul 1976, DNB 780451570 .
  4. ^ A b Günter Ebert (Hrsg.): The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 9 (Spanner (Geometridae) 2nd part), Nachtfalter VII. Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-800-13279-6

literature

  • J. Schönfelder: An interesting breed of Horsime corticata SCHIFF. In: Entomologische Nachrichten 12 (1968), Dresden, pp. 82-83

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