Peridea anceps (Goeze, 1781)

Host plants:
The larvae feed on Quercus species.

Habitat:
Peridea anceps inhabits warm oak forests, particularly coppice forests with single old oaks, but also old oaks in the open country, for example on grasslands on the eastern Swabian Alb.

Life cycle:
Peridea anceps forms a single generation from April to June, rarely later. The caterpillars live from May to July and can be tapped. Pupation takes place under bark or in the litter.

Endangerment: regionally endangered or decreasing

Endangerment factors:
Peridea anceps is in decline due to the decline of warm and bright oak forests and increasing dark forest management, but thanks to climatic insensitivity overall not immediately threatened.

Remarks:
Peridea anceps is distributed from Northwest Africa across much of Europe and the northern Turkey to central Russia.