Goosefoot flyer

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Goosefoot flyer
Eupithecia sinuosaria.jpg

Goosefoot pods ( Eupithecia sinuosaria )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Spanner (Geometridae)
Subfamily : Larentiinae
Genre : Eupithecia
Type : Goosefoot flyer
Scientific name
Eupithecia sinuosaria
( Eversmann , 1848)

The eupithecia sinuosaria ( Eupithecia sinuosaria ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of the tensioner (Geometridae). Under the previously sometimes used name "Report bloom tensioner", the bloom tensioner Eupithecia simpliciata is now carried .

features

butterfly

The wingspan of the moth is 15 to 20 millimeters. The narrow front wings have a light brown color with a dark brown, on the Costa broad beginning, extending across the entire wing and tapered toward the inner edge binding. In the outer fringing area there is a deep brown, dark field that extends to the tip. With these very characteristic drawings, the species can be easily distinguished from other flowering moths. The hind wings are almost plain light gray, almost without drawing.

Egg, caterpillar, pupa

The egg is initially yolk yellow, elongated and oval, later brown-gray. The caterpillar is usually dull green in color and has a reddish stain on the anus. Sometimes the back and sides are colored burgundy. The pupa is light red-brown and has greenish wing sheaths. There are four shorter and four longer hook bristles on the cremaster .

Synonyms

  • Tephroclystia sinuosaria

Occurrence

The goosefoot moth is originally a Russian-Asiatic species. In the middle of the twentieth century, it appeared increasingly in eastern Germany and quickly spread to the west and south. This spread is probably related to the fact that after the end of the Second World War there were heaps of rubble and debris fields in many areas, on which goose feet ( Chenopodium ), the main food plant of the caterpillars, spread quickly and abundantly. In the meantime the species colonized large parts of Central Europe, is indigenous in almost all federal states in Germany and occurs in large numbers on wasteland and rubble sites.

Way of life

The caterpillars feed on the flowers of the goose feet ( Chenopodium ) and the report ( Atriplex ). They occur in July and August. The pupae overwinter. The nocturnal moths, which also visit artificial light sources , fly from early June to early August.

Danger

In Germany the species occurs in almost all federal states and is not considered acutely endangered.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W. Forster, TA Wohlfahrt: Spanner . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 1974, ISBN 3-440-46625-6
  2. ↑ E.Haeger: A contribution to the knowledge of the United butterfly fauna Brandenburg. Zeitschrift für Lepidopterologie, Vol. 1, 1950, p. 158
  3. ↑ K.Stöckel: Collection results from 1963. Communications of the German Entomological Society, Vol. 23, 1964, p. 56
  4. ↑ G. Meyer: Eupithecia sinuosaria Ev. New for NW Germany. Bombus, Vol. 1, 1954, pp. 355-356
  5. ↑ K.Cleve: The advance of Eupithecia sinuosaria EV. in Central Europe (Lep. Geometridae). Communications of the German Entomological Society, Vol. 29, 1970, pp. 6-9
  6. ↑ Manfred Koch, Wolfgang Heinicke, Bernd Müller: We determine butterflies. Volume 4: Spanner. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Neumann, Leipzig / Radebeul 1976, DNB 780451570 .
  7. ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89624-110-9

literature

  • W. Forster, TA Wohlfahrt: Spanner . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 1974. ISBN 3-440-46625-6
  • Manfred Koch , Wolfgang Heinicke, Bernd Müller: We determine butterflies. Volume 4: Spanner. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Neumann, Leipzig / Radebeul 1976, DNB 780451570 .

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