Beiträge von Renchan

by the way, if that's important for identification - caterpillars spun their cocoons in fallen leaves on cages floor, not on tree branches

Zitat von Papilion 65

Hi,
This should be Artemis.
Eric

it is an actual species, Actias artemis? I found very confusing information about classification on russian entomology resourses, and even on wikipedia it says following: Actias artemis (=gnoma), Actias dulcinea (=sjoqvisti) (so, they say that Actias artemis is now = gnoma, and Actias sjoqvisti is now called dulcinea and I have absolutely no idea is that correct or not. There's 4 or so Actias species on Russian Far East and not only they are very difficult to differentiate, their species names are very confusing as well)
Thank you very much for your help, I highly appreciate it!

Zitat von Ragged-Robin

Do you also have pictures of the larval stages?

yes, sure (I'll attach pictures of different stages and a box of cocoons - for some reason they were different in color, but they are all the same species. I raised 65 of them to cocoons)

I raised it from ova bought from local russian retailer at previous late summer, and they were sold as Actias dulcinea, but seller wasn't absolutely sure about that. Origin of those is russian Far East (Primorye)
Was it identified correctly, or it may be different actias species?

thank you for your reply!
yes, of course, pupae were kept in a netting cage and moths can climb up easily to spread wings. cage was humid - pupae were kept on damp peat moss pillow, and I spray it with water from time to time for extra humidity. it was found on cage wall, looks like it tried to spread its wings, but didn't succeed.
Caterpillars were very small to pupate, I was actually very surprised they did, because of I thought they are L4 or less, but, apparently, they were already adult, just very very small.

I was curious what is this yellow organ visible, it is the first time I see such a thing, and I failed to find any information, I guess it is something very unusual

Hello!

I grew couple of Arctia caja (yellow ssp, not sure which one, maybe wiscotti) caterpillars at this autumn, most of them decided to overwinter as they should, but couple grew to L5 and pupated (they were not very large if that's important).
One moth emerged ok with only hind wings a bit crumpled, but second one is very crippled.

I wanted to ask, what is that yellow thing (I am not good in moth anatomy, unfortunately) visible? is it coremata, one of its internal organs prolapsed, or it is some sort of mutation? moth was unable to spread its wings - they remained same size as when it has emerged from pupae. pupae itself took about a month to hatch

sorry for bad quality pictures, I don't have a good camera.
I tried to google but didn't found anything about that

maybe it is too late to suggest that, but I have couple of aristolochia plants growing indoors - their roots instantly gave fresh sprouts when I planted them into pots (I wanted to plant them in my garden, but were too late - winter came unexpectedly early and I decided to keep them home instead of planting them into frozen soil).
if you still have some fairly good plants and there's quite a lot of them, maybe it will be good to try planting some into pots, so you will save leaves they still have from the frost.
sorry if that's not a suggestion you were looking for, I never heard alcinous feeding on something other than aristolochia, so I can't help with alternatives