Hollow tooth capsule tensioner

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Hollow tooth capsule tensioner
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Hollow-tooth capsule tensioner ( Perizoma alchemillata )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Spanner (Geometridae)
Subfamily : Larentiinae
Genre : Perizoma
Type : Hollow tooth capsule tensioner
Scientific name
Perizoma alchemillata
( Linnaeus , 1758)
Caterpillar
Flower and capsule of the common hollow tooth, the main food of the caterpillars

The hollow tooth-cylinder lock ( Perizoma alchemillata ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of the tensioner (Geometridae). The species name is derived from the plant genus Alchemilla ( lady's mantle ) and refers to a food of the caterpillars.

features

butterfly

The moths reach a wingspan of 15 to 24 millimeters. The basic color of the upper side of the forewing is gray-brown. In the post-disk region there is a whitish transverse band, which is divided by a dark transverse line and from which some prongs protrude towards the hem and roots. The wavy line begins clearly at the front edge and runs towards the interior angle, weakened and partially interrupted. The upper side of the hind wing is colored dark gray.

Caterpillar

Adult caterpillars are yellow-green in color and have broad red to red-brown secondary ridges. The head capsule, prothorax and anal plate are glossy black.

Similar species

With a wingspan of 21 to 30 millimeters, the dark light clove capsule wrench ( Perizoma affinitata ) is larger on average and also differs in its usually somewhat wider whitish transverse band, which is mostly less jagged along the edge than in Perizoma alchemillata . Another distinguishing feature is the white-gray upper side of the hind wing with a gray border in Perizoma affinitata .

Distribution and occurrence

The distribution area of ​​the hollow-tooth capsular tensioner extends from the Iberian Peninsula through Europe to western Siberia . The species is also found in North America . The hollow-tooth capsule spanner colonizes the edges of forests, clearings, embankments, hedges and banks, heaths, gardens and parklands. It also occurs in urban areas. In the Alps it rises to around 1900, in Asia Minor to 2700 meters.

Way of life

The hollow-tooth capsule tensioner forms one generation a year in the northern regions, whose moths fly in summer. In the south, the moths fly in two generations in May and June and July and August. They are crepuscular and nocturnal and are found in artificial light sources . The moths also visit bait . The common hollow tooth ( Galeopsis tetrahit ) is by far the most preferred food plant of the caterpillars, where they feed on their flowers and seed pods. Caterpillars have also been found on other types of hollow teeth ( Galeopsis ) as well as on ziesten ( Stachys ), dead nettles ( Lamium ) and yellow-green lady's mantle ( Alchemilla xanthochlora ). The species overwinters in the pupal stage .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Spuler : The butterflies of Europe , Volume 2, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1910, p. 61
  2. ↑ a b Axel Hausmann (Ed.), Vladimir Mironov: The Geometrid Moths of Europe 4. Larentiinae 2. , Apollo Books, Stenstrup (Denmark) 2004, ISBN 87-88757-40-4 , pp. 30-32
  3. ^ A b Walter Forster & Theodor A. Wohlfahrt : The butterflies of Central Europe, Volume 5, Spanner. (Geometridae). Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-440-04951-5 , p. 131
  4. ^ Karl Cleve: The butterflies of West Berlin , Berliner Naturschutzblätter, Volksbund Naturschutz e. V., Volume 22, No. 63, 1978, p. 363
  5. ^ Josef Wolfsberger: The Macrolepidoptera fauna of the Lake Garda area , Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, 1965
  6. ^ A b Günter Ebert, Daniel Bartsch, Armin Becher, Stefan Hafner: The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 9: Spanner (Geometridae). Part 2: Nachtfalter VII. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3279-6 , pp. 34-36
  7. ↑ Manfred Koch , Wolfgang Heinicke, Bernd Müller: We determine butterflies. Volume 4: Spanner. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Neumann, Leipzig / Radebeul 1976, DNB 780451570 , p. 146/147

literature

  • Axel Hausmann (Ed.), Vladimir Mironov: The Geometrid Moths of Europe 4. Larentiinae 2. , Apollo Books, Stenstrup (Denmark) 2004, ISBN 87-88757-40-4
  • Arno Bergmann: The large butterflies of Central Germany. Volume 5/1: Spanner. Distribution, forms and communities. Urania-Verlag, Jena 1955, DNB 450378403 .
  • Günter Ebert, Daniel Bartsch, Armin Becher, Stefan Hafner: The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 9: Spanner (Geometridae). Part 2: Nachtfalter VII. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3279-6 .

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