Trichosea ludifica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Host plants:
The caterpillar lives polyphagous on deciduous woods (mainly Alnus, Fraxinus, Malus, Prunus, Sorbus, Salix).

Habitat:
Trichosea ludifica inhabits grove rich, semi-open habitats.

Life cycle:
The pupa respectively the moth overwinters in the pupal case. The moths fly obviously in one or two generations from April to August/September, depending on locality. Occasionally pupae may also emerge prematurely in autumn.

Endangerment: threatened with extinction

Endangerment factors:
Trichosea ludifica is extinc in wide regions in Europe because of hardly comprehensive reasons (climate?, habitat loss?, fluctuation?), e.g. from Baden-Wuerttemberg. Today, the moth still occurs for example locally in northeastern Europe (southern Finland, Russia) and from Northern Spain across Southern France and the Alps to the south of Poland and Romania. The latter part of area is already pretty broken and pushed back to local remainders.