Insect - Scarlet Tiger Moth - German postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Scarlet Tiger Moth (Schonbar)
• Publisher:  Druck und Verlag Engadin Press AG, Samedan
• Postally used:  no - message but not posted
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Scarlet Tiger Moth (Callimorpha dominula, formerly Panaxia dominula) is a colorful moth of Europe, Turkey, Transcaucasus, northern Iran. It belongs to the tiger moth family, Arctiidae.

The caterpillars feed mostly on comfrey (Symphytum officinale). The imagines fly by day.

It can occur in rare colour forms, one with yellow hindwings and body and one with extended black on hindwings.

The three morphs occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire, Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998), including research by E.B. Ford, R.A. Fisher and Denis Owen.

McNamara (1998) describes how amateurs can rear this species.

• Callimorpha dominula dominula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Baltic, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Western Russia and Central Europe)
• Callimorpha dominula lusitanica Staudinger, 1894 (Portugal)
• Callimorpha dominula pompalis Nitsche, [1926] (South Alps valleys)
• Callimorpha dominula persona (Hübner, 1790) (Italy south of the Alps, excluding Piedmont and southern Alpine valleys )
• Callimorpha dominula trinacriae Nardelli & Giandolfo, 1996 (Sicily)
• Callimorpha dominula profuga (Goeze, 1781) (Balkans: Macedonia (Scopje); Albania; Greece; West Turkey)
• Callimorpha dominula rossica Kolenati, 1846 (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, except Talysh Mountains; North-Western Iran)
• Callimorpha dominula philippsi Bartel, 1906 (Talysh Mountains, North Iran, Southern Turkmenistan)
• Callimorpha dominula kurdistanica Thomas, 1983 (South-East Turkey, possibly Iraq)

type=printed

animal subject=moths

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)

county/ country=germany