Perizoma incultaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1848)
Lepidoptera, Geometridae
mine
Full depth mine; a long, slender, corridor at first. This widens into a blotch that may occupy the largest part of the leaf and then obliterates the corridor. The larvae is able to make a number of mines. Frass in the corridor in an initially broad, later narrow central line; in the blotch it lies dispersed in coarse blackish green lumps.
hostplants
Primulaceae, monophagous
Primula auricula, “viscosa”.
phenology
Larvae of the first, mining, generation in July. The larvae of the second generation do not mine, but live in the fruit capsules (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
Not known from the Benelux countries.
distribution within Europe
From Germany and Poland to Spain, and from France to Italy and the Balkan Peninsula (Fauna Europaea, 2011); alpine species (Hering, 1957a).
larva
When the larvae is taken out of its mine it makes the characteristic geometer movements that constitute its family character (Hering, 1957a).
synonyms
Cidaria, Larentia incultaria.
references
Beiger (1979b), Hering (1931f, 1957a, 1964a), Skala (1948a).
13/02/2017