Lygephila craccae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)


Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, France, Hautes-Alpes, larva in mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, France, Hautes-Alpes, larva in mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Half-grown larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (France, Hautes-Alpes, mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (France, Hautes-Alpes, mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (France, Hautes-Alpes, mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Adult (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Larva (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [M] Lygephila craccae: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Greece, Samos Island, larva in mid-May 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Pupa (e.l. rearing, France, Hautes-Alpes, mid-June 2017) [S] Lygephila craccae: Larval habitat with Coronilla emerus (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [N] Lygephila craccae: Larval habitat with Coronilla emerus (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [N] Lygephila craccae: Larval habitat with Coronilla emerus (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [N] Lygephila craccae: Larval habitat with Coronilla emerus (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [N] Lygephila craccae: Larval habitat with Coronilla emerus (Greece, Samos Island, mid-May 2017) [N]

Host plants:
The larvae feed on Coronilla emerus, Vicia sp. and most probably also related genera.

Habitat:
Lygephila craccae usually inhabits dry and warm edges with the host plants such as quarries, rocky slopes with open woodland, edges in bushy grasslands and woodland margins.

Life cycle:
The egg hibernates. The larvae develop between April and June and partly again in July/August. The moths occur in one or two generations between late May/June and July and again in August/September.

Remarks:
Lygephila craccae occurs in Europe and temperate Asia to Japan.



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