Sainfoin glass-beetle [1] ( lat. Bembecia scopigera ) is a species of butterflies of the genus Bembecia from the family of glass- makers ( Sesiidae ).
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Distribution
Western Palearctic . Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the European part of Russia (east to the Volgograd region), Crimea, Turkey [2] [3] .
Description
Wingspan from 19 to 29 mm. Females differ from closely related species in dorsal black antennae (with metallic luster), with a small yellow-orange or orange subapical spot; first and second abdominal sternitis black laterally; fore coxae brownish black. Fore and hind tibia of males are yellowish-orange. Wings are transparent (without scales). Outwardly similar to wasps (the main color is black with yellow or whitish marks). The proboscis is short, reduced. Lepidoptera flying in the afternoon, adults are observed in the summer. Caterpillars feed on the roots of grasses and shrubs of legumes . The species was first described in 1763, and its valid status was confirmed in an audit conducted in 2018 by Russian lepidopterologists O.G. Gorbunov ( A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow ) and K.A. Efetov ( Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky , Simferopol ) [2] [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Savchuk V.V. Sesiidae - Glass-makers (English) . Butterflies of Crimea . lepidoptera.crimea.ua. Date of appeal April 25, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Gorbunov OG and KA Efetov . The Clearwing Moth Genus Bembecia Hübner 1819 [“1816” (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) in Crimea, with the Description of a New Species] (Russian) // Zoological Journal : Journal. - Moscow : ICC "Akademkniga", 2018. - T. 97 , No. 7 . - S. 812-839 . - ISSN 0044-5134 .
- ↑ 1 2 Gorbunov O. G. , Chistyakov Yu. A. 1999. Supersem. Sesioidea. 44. Sem. Sesiidae - glassware // Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. V. Caddis flies and lepidopterans. Part 2 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 1999. - S. 292-307. - 671 p. - ISBN 5-7442-0910-7 .
- ↑ Sukhareva I.L. 1978. 18. Sem. Sesiidae - glassware // Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. IV. Lepidoptera. First part. // (Zagulyaev A.K. et al.) / Ed. G. S. Medvedev . - Leningrad: “Science”, 1978. - S. 156–177. - 712 s. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 117.). - 3500 copies.
Literature
- Gorbunov OG , Tshistjakov Yu.A. 1995. A review of the clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of the Russian Far East // Far Eastern Entomologist. V. 10. P. 1-18.
- Gorbunov O. G., Chistyakov Yu. A. 1999. Supersem. Sesioidea. 44. Sem. Sesiidae - glassware // Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. V. Caddis flies and lepidopterans. Part 2 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 1999. - S. 292-307. - 671 p. - ISBN 5-7442-0910-7 .
Links
- Savchuk V.V. Sesiidae - Glass-makers (English) . Butterflies of Crimea . lepidoptera.crimea.ua. Date of appeal April 25, 2019.
- Bembecia (English) . Fauna Europaea. Date of appeal April 25, 2019.