Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Bombycoidea
Familia: Sphingidae
Subfamilia: Smerinthinae
Tribus: Smerinthini
Genus: Laothoe
Species: Laothoe amurensis
Subspecies: L. a. amurensis – L. a. sinica
Name
Laothoe amurensis (Staudinger, 1892)
Synonyms
Smerinthus tremulae var. amurensis Staudinger, 1892 in Romanoff.
Smerinthus amurensis rosacea Staudinger, 192
Laothoe tremulae baltica Viidalepp, 1979
Photos
Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic [1]
Vernacular names
беларуская: Бражнік асінавы
Deutsch: Zitterpappelschwärmer, Espenschwärmer
English: Aspen Hawkmoth
suomi: Haapakiitäjä
français: Sphinx du Tremble
polski: Zawisak osinowiec
svenska: Aspsvärmare
Laothoe amurensis, the aspen hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
Distribution
It is found in the northern part of the Palearctic realm. It flies in May and can be found only in far-eastern Europe, including parts of Poland, Finland, Ukraine and Belarus. It is found East to Japan as subspecies sinica. In spite of being very rare, it is not protected, e.g. in Poland. There are few known places where obtaining this moth by attracting to light is possible.
Description
The wingspan is 71–98 mm. Very similar to Laothoe populi, a common European moth found everywhere, but bigger and much darker.
Eggs laid singly or in small groups of two to four. Eggs are laid on the underside of leaves.
Male dorsal
Male ventral
Biology
The larvae feed singly on Populus tremula and willow. They are green with seven pale stripes, and look like L. populi caterpillars, but, opposite to it, have two or three little "horns" above their head. It is difficult to distinguish.
This moth spends winter as chrysalid in the soil.
Subspecies
Laothoe amurensis amurensis (from central Poland and southern Finland, east through Russia, southern Siberia and Yakutia to the Pacific coast, including Sakhalin Island. In the eastern Palaearctic, it occurs south as far as the Altai Mountains of Xinjiang, northern Mongolia, northern Heilongjiang, Primorskiy Kray and Hokkaido and Honshu in Japan)
Laothoe amurensis sinica Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (China and Korea)
References
"CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience – Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.[permanent dead link]
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