Graellsia isabellae

Taxobox
name = Graellsia isabellae

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image_caption = "Graellsia isabellae", adult male
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Saturniidae
genus = "Graellsia"
species = "G. isabellae"
binomial = "Graellsia isabellae"
binomial_authority = (Graells, 1849)
range_

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range_map_caption = Distribution of "G. isabellae" in West EuropeThe Spanish Moon Moth ("Graellsia isabellae") is a moth of the silkmoth Family Saturniidae.

Range

The moth is native to Spain and France.

At the end of April and beginning of May the moth began to hatch after overwintering in the cocoon. Normally moth from the same line don´t copulate, so it is the condition that different lines are in a not too wide range.After copulation the female lay about 100 to 150 eggs on the favoured foodplant, pines.Tha larva hatch after 1 to 1,5 weeks an still begin to eat from the very hard pine "leaves".It takes about 1,5 month to see the last instar of the caterpillars. In the last instar the caterpillars go down from the tree to pupate under leaves on the ground. In this phase the puopae in the cocoon overwinters until next springtime.

Egg

Larva

Pupa

Adult

Images

Host Plants