| Long-legged Tabby (Synaphe punctalis (Fabricius, 1775)) |
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Scientific name: Synaphe punctalis (Fabricius, 1775) Common name: Long-legged Tabby French name: Clédéobie étroite Order: Lepidoptera Suborder: Heterocera Family: Pyralidae Subfamily: Pyralinae Wingspan: 22 to 27 mm. Biotope: Waste lands, sunny slopes, dunes. Geographic area: Europe, Asia Minor, north-western Africa and North America. Flight time: June to September. Number of generations : 1 Caterpillar: Blackish with a dark brown head. It shelters inside a silken tube at the base of low growing plants. Host plant: Various mosses on the ground. |
The Long-legged Tabby shows narrow and angulous fore wings with a variable brown colour. Females are usually lighter coloured than males. The fore wings bear two dark cross bands. The one close to the base (sometimes hardly visible) is strongly curved and bordered with a lighter colour on the base side. The one closer to the margin is just slightly wavy and outlined with a lighter colour on the margin side. The area between these two bands appears often darker. The costal edge is marked with tiny oblique white hyphens. The palps are very long, protruding frontwards and slightly down curved. The legs are very long. Legs II and III have spines. The hind wings are grey. Long-legged Tabby is attracted to light. |
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The dark colour must indicate one male. Are the comb-like antennae a confirmation of this? |
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This Long-legged Tabby has been very kind to land in a position allowing me to see the colour of its hind wings. |
André Bon April 2016