Camel tooth spinner
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Camel tooth spinner ( Ptilodon capucina ) |
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The camel toothed moth ( Ptilodon capucina ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of toothed spinners (Notodontidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 30 to 45 millimeters. They have yellow-brown to red-brown colored wings on which two black fine serrated bands and along the wing veins only slightly indicated, also black longitudinal lines run. They have a cone-shaped head of hair on their chest (just behind their head), which gave them their name because it looks like a camel's hump. They also have a tooth overgrown with black hair in the middle of the rear edge of the wings.
The caterpillars are about 30 millimeters long. They are either light green and yellow or pinkish-brownish with a little yellow and each have a yellow longitudinal band with red spots on each side. Her legs, like the two peg-like back bumps on the 11th segment, are colored red. You have some fine and black hair all over your body.
Synonyms
- Lophopteryx capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Occurrence
The animals are widespread and common in Europe and occur east to East Asia . They live in different habitats where their forage plants grow, such as B. at forest edges , in avenues , parks and gardens.
Way of life
The nocturnal moths fly annually in two generations from late April to early July and from late July to mid-August. During the day they sit well camouflaged on tree trunks.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on a variety of different deciduous trees and shrubs, such as B. Silver birch ( Betula pendula ), beech ( Fagus sylvatica ), English oak ( Quercus robur ), Aspen ( Populus tremula ), willow ( Salix caprea ), European hazel ( Corylus avellana ) and red alder ( Alnus glutinosa ).
development
The females lay their light green eggs in small groups on the underside of the leaf margin of their forage plants. The hatching caterpillars live gregariously, but become loners in the course of their development. They have a strange looking defensive attitude when they sense danger. They stretch their head far back and their backside up and at the same time their breastbones forward. The animals pupate on the ground or just below the ground in a chamber lined with only a few threads. The second generation hibernates like this, the first hatches in the same year.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Heiko Bellmann : The new Kosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 , p. 244.
- ^ A b Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Moths. Weirdos and hawkers. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1 , p. 306.
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- www.schmetterling-raupe.de
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Ian Kimber: Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland (English)
- Ptilodon capucina at Fauna Europaea