Soot Spinner

Soot Spinner
	Soot Spinner, illustration from Esper 1782
Systematics
Class :	Insects (Insecta)
Order :	Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family :	Owl butterfly (Erebidae)
Subfamily :	Bearded Moth (Lymantriinae)
Genre :	Ocneria
Type :	Soot Spinner
Scientific name
	Ocneria detrita
	( Esper , 1785)

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The Rußspinner ( Ocneria detrita , Syn. : Parocneria detrita ) even Little gypsy moth is a butterfly of the subfamily of tussock moths (Lymantriinae) which, in France , Italy , parts of Central Europe , Southeast and Eastern Europe is widespread.

features

While the basic color of the males is brown-gray and they have an irregular, thin, darker transverse line, the females are somewhat darker than the males and without drawing. The wingspan is 30 to 34 millimeters.

The caterpillars have a dark, blue-gray, almost black basic color and a white topline. On the 9th and 10th segments there are red hairy warts on top. A little further to the side there are black-gray haired warts and a row deeper the warts are orange-red. There are gray warts above the feet. The stigmas are black and the belly legs reddish gray. The rounded head has the same basic color as the body and, like this, is also white-pollinated.

The species spends about three weeks in its black pupa, with tufts of green and brown hair, which is in a loose web.

Way of life

The moths fly in one generation from the beginning of June to the end of September and overwinter as half-grown caterpillars. These feed almost exclusively on oaks ( Quercus ). This is why the species occurs mainly in oak forests.

supporting documents

↑ Esper, JC (1782): The butterflies in illustrations according to nature with descriptions. Third part. pl. I-LXXIX. Erlangen (Wolfgang Walther).
↑ Soot Spinner. on: lepiforum.de , section: Further information
↑ ^a ^b European butterflies: Parocneria detrita. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: lepidoptera.pl , section: Occurrence - life cycle, flight area and distribution@1@ 2

↑ Karl Eckstein: The butterflies of Germany with special consideration of their biology. Volume 2, p. 58. (online at: archive.org , p. 204)

Web links

Parocneria detrita in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved September 3, 2013

[Esper-1] Esper, JC (1782): The butterflies in illustrations according to nature with descriptions. Third part. pl. I-LXXIX. Erlangen (Wolfgang Walther).

[lepiforum-2] Soot Spinner. on: lepiforum.de , section: Further information

[euroschmett-3] European butterflies: Parocneria detrita. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: lepidoptera.pl , section: Occurrence - life cycle, flight area and distribution@1@ 2

[schmettdeu-4] Karl Eckstein: The butterflies of Germany with special consideration of their biology. Volume 2, p. 58. (online at: archive.org , p. 204)