White-forehead whitewater
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White- fronted Weißspanner (female) ( Cabera pusaria ) |
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| ( Linnaeus , 1758) |
The white- forehead whitewater ( Cabera pusaria ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of the flyers (Geometridae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 25 to 28 millimeters. They have white wings that have three gray-brown, very slightly wavy transverse lines. In addition, the wings are very finely speckled with black scales . In contrast to the very similar Cabera exanthemata , Cabera pusaria 's forehead below the antennae is pure white.
The caterpillars are 35 millimeters long. They are green or brownish in color. Your body cross-section is flattened. They have a red-brown spot on each segment on the back.
Similar species
- Brown-fronted whitewater ( Cabera exanthemata ) (Scopoli, 1763)
- Urbahn's white willow spanner ( Cabera leptographa ) (Wehrli, 1936)
Occurrence
They occur frequently in deciduous forests and their surroundings and almost everywhere in Central Europe .
Way of life
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of various trees and shrubs, but above all on white willow ( Salix capera ), silver birch ( Betula pendula ), sycamore elm ( Ulmus glabra ), black alder ( Alnus glutinosa ), English oak ( Quercus robur ).
The caterpillars pupate in a loose web on the ground and hibernate before they hatch.
Flight and caterpillar times
The nocturnal animals fly in two generations per year from April to October.
swell
Individual evidence
literature
- Heiko Bellmann : The new Kosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 .
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland (English)
- www.insektenbox.de
- Cabera pusaria at Fauna Europaea