Muschampia tessellum
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Muschampia tessellum is a butterfly from the family of the thick-headed butterflies (Hesperiidae).
features
The fore wing length is 13 to 16 mm. The upper side is generally dark gray in color with large white spots on the fore and hind wings. There are also a pair of disk spots in cell 1b on the forewings . The underside is light and olive brown in color. The base is a little darker. Both sexes have the same wing drawings.
The caterpillars are initially blue-gray with a z. T. interrupted black back line. The secondary lines of the back are only faintly indicated and white on the belly side. The head is black with a brown neck plate. Later caterpillar stages are light gray-blue with a black head and a light brown to almost yellowish nape of the neck. The back line is broken up into a pattern of elongated points. Two more rows of dots are on the side. The anal shield is colored light brown. The caterpillars are very hairy in all stages. The pupa is almost black with a shiny surface and only very faint bluish tires.
Geographical occurrence and habitat
Muschampia tessellum is distributed from the southern Balkan Peninsula ( Macedonia , Bulgaria , Greece and the European part of Turkey ) via the Ukraine , southern Russia (north to the region around Moscow) and Asia Minor , southern Siberia , Mongolia eastwards to the Amurland . The species occurs in sunny, only moderately dry, extensively used pasture landscapes, at altitudes between 500 and 1600 m above sea level.
Way of life
The moths in Europe fly from late May to mid-August, with a peak in early June in a generation. In the Altai , the moths were observed from May to July. The caterpillar feeds on fire herbs ( phlomis ). So far only Phlomis samia has been confirmed for Greece and Phlomis tuberosa for the southern Urals . The species overwinters as an L2 or possibly as an L3 caterpillar.
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literature
- Lionel G. Higgins, Norman D. Riley: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . 1st edition. Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-490-01918-0 .
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Lionel G. Higgins, Norman D. Riley: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . 1st edition. Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-490-01918-0 , pp. 287 .
- ↑ a b c d after Wolfgang Wagner
- ^ Zdravko Kolev: First record of Muschampia cribrellum in Bulgaria, with a review of the recorded distribution of genus Muschampia in the country (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Phegea, 31 (1): 15–21, Berchem 2003 ISSN 0771-5277 PDF ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ VV Tshikolovets: The Butterflies of Ukraine. Sbirnyk prac Zoologitsnogo Muzeji, 37: 13–62, Kiev 2005 PDF
- ↑ according to Vlad Proklov ( memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 261 .
- ^ VA Lukhtanov, MS Vishnevskaya, AV Volynkin and RV Yakovlev: Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of West Altai. Entomological Review, 87 (5): 524-544, Moscow 2007 doi : 10.1134 / S001387380705003X
Web links
- Art portrait at pyrgus.de - website by Wolfgang Wagner
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Captain's European Butterfly Site (English)
- Muschampia tessellum at Fauna Europaea