Anthracia eriopoda (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)


Anthracia eriopoda: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [M] Anthracia eriopoda: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [M] Anthracia eriopoda: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) Anthracia eriopoda: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [M] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larva (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Pupa (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Pupa (e.l. Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, larva in early March 2016) [S] Anthracia eriopoda: Larval habitat, larvae on the ground on cut oak branches with old leaves of the last year (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [N] Anthracia eriopoda: Larval habitat, larvae on the ground on cut oak branches with old leaves of the last year (Greece, Samos Island, Moni Megalis Panagias, early March 2016) [N]

Host plants:
The larvae are polyphagous at least after hibernation and probably feed on various herbal plants and youg and ground-near shoots of groves. Oviposition possibly occurs preferably on oaks. But this has to be prooved in the field.

Habitat:
Anthracia eriopoda inhabits dry and hot and at least partially grove-rich habitats lieke open oak woodland, maquis, garigues with single oak trees etc.

Life cycle:
The life cycle still requires further research. I have beaten the half-grown larvae (Samos Island, early March 2016) from cut or broken oak branches on the ground which still beared dry leaves. The moths mainly occur in August and September.

Remarks:
Anthracia eriopoda occurs locally in the Balkans (especially Greece incl. Samos island, Bulgaria, Macedonia), in the Levant (incl. Cyprus) and from Asia Minor to S-Russia.


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