Psodos Quadrifaria - Best places to see in France
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:05 pm
Hi everyone, i am a new forum member and this is my first post.
I am going to be heading over to France for about ten days in early July primarily to search for butterflies and moths, I will be spending my first few days at Le Mont-Dore in the Massif Central and then I may visit the Alps or even the Pyrenees, Psodos Quadrifaria is one of the species that i would really love to find and photograph, especially after i was fortunate enough to find one on the Passo Sella on my very last day of a cycling holiday to the Dolomites last July.
I am pretty certain that many of you will have encountered this species during your various trips to the various mountains of France over the years and I would be very appreciative if you would be kind enough to supply me with some precise locations where you have previously found this species.
Psodos quadrifaria (Yellow Banded Moth) is a small black and yellow day flying member of the Geometridae family with a wingspan of 18-25 mm, it has one generation per year and can be found in alpine meadows at heights of up to about 2,700 meters from late May until mid August (although there have been a few earlier records from the Pyrenees), its range includes the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central mountains, the High Tatra mountains and the Balkan mountains plus it also has a scattered distribution in the Krkonoše mountains.
I am going to be heading over to France for about ten days in early July primarily to search for butterflies and moths, I will be spending my first few days at Le Mont-Dore in the Massif Central and then I may visit the Alps or even the Pyrenees, Psodos Quadrifaria is one of the species that i would really love to find and photograph, especially after i was fortunate enough to find one on the Passo Sella on my very last day of a cycling holiday to the Dolomites last July.
I am pretty certain that many of you will have encountered this species during your various trips to the various mountains of France over the years and I would be very appreciative if you would be kind enough to supply me with some precise locations where you have previously found this species.
Psodos quadrifaria (Yellow Banded Moth) is a small black and yellow day flying member of the Geometridae family with a wingspan of 18-25 mm, it has one generation per year and can be found in alpine meadows at heights of up to about 2,700 meters from late May until mid August (although there have been a few earlier records from the Pyrenees), its range includes the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central mountains, the High Tatra mountains and the Balkan mountains plus it also has a scattered distribution in the Krkonoše mountains.