Peridea anceps (Goeze, 1781)


Peridea anceps: Adult (e.l. Northern Greece 2010) [S] Peridea anceps: Adult (e.l. Northern Greece 2010) [S] Peridea anceps: Adult [S] Peridea anceps: Ovae (Provence, France, April 2011) [N] Peridea anceps: L1 (e.o. Provence, France 2011) [S] Peridea anceps: Young larva (e.o. Provence, France 2011) [S] Peridea anceps: Larva [S] Peridea anceps: Larva after the last moult  [N] Peridea anceps: Larva [M] Peridea anceps: Larva [S] Peridea anceps: Larva [M] Peridea anceps: Larva [S] Peridea anceps: Larva [S] Peridea anceps: Pupa (e.l. Northern Greece 2010) [S] Peridea anceps: Pupa (kremaster: without thorns) [S] Peridea anceps: Habitat (egg record at Quercus pubescens at the right margin of the photo) in the Provence, France: warm, open forest with pine and oaks (Q. pubescens and Q. ilex, April 2011) [N]

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.