Pammene aurana is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Pammene |
| Species: | P. aurana
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| Binomial name | |
| Pammene aurana (Fabricius, 1775)
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Distribution edit
This species can be found in most of Europe and the Palearctic.[2] To the east, the distribution extends over southern Siberia, the Alatau to the region Primorsky Krai in the Far East.
Habitat edit
These moths occur in gardens, forest clearings, hedgerows, woodland edges, forest roads and roadsides.[3]
Description edit
Pammene aurana has a wingspan of 9–13 mm.[4] These moths show chocolate brown or reddish brown forewings with yellow-orange blotches. They usually have two almost round yellow-orange spots before the wing's outer edge and a large round or semicircular yellow-orange marking in the middle at the wing's rear edge. The fringes are dark brown. The hind wings are dark. Head, thorax, abdomen and antennae are brown to dark brown. In the form Pammene aurana var. aurantiana the various yellow-orange markings flow together and only the wing base, the costa and the outer edge are brown.
The caterpillars are whitish with a shiny black-brown head. They can reach a length of about 5 millimetres (0.20 in).[5]
Biology edit
Adults are on wing from June to August. They are active in sunshine. The feed on nectar of the common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) and of giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazziannum).[6] There is one generation per year (univoltine species). The eggs are laid in the flowers of said plants. The larvae live within a spinning of the seeds of these flowers and feed on them. They hibernate from October in a silk cocoon under the ground and pupates the following year in spring inside that cocoon. The moths hatch in June and July.[4][7]
References edit
- ^ Smith, Frank H N (1997). The Moths and Butterflies of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wallingford: Gem Publishing Company. p. 145. ISBN 0 906802 07 5.
- ^ Fauna aurana
- ^ Nature Spot
- ^ a b UK Moths
- ^ Lepiforum.de (in German)
- ^ Petr Pyek (Hrsg.): Ecology and Management of Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazziannum). CABI, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84593-206-0, S. 174
- ^ Lepidoptera of Belgium
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