Alpine yellow fling

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Alpine yellow fling
Alpine yellow fling (Colias phicomone), ♂

Alpine yellow fling ( Colias phicomone ), ♂

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Whitelings (Pieridae)
Subfamily : Yellowlings (Coliadinae)
Genre : Colias
Type : Alpine yellow fling
Scientific name
Colias phicomone
( Esper , 1780)
Distribution of the Alpine Yellowling
Preparation of a male
Image of a male from esper, bottom and top

The alpine yellow fever or greenish hay butterfly ( Colias phicomone ) is a butterfly from the family of the white flies (Pieridae) in the subfamily of the yellow flies , restricted to the European high mountains . The specific epithet is derived from a forest nymph from Greek mythology .

features

Characteristics of the adults

The male moths have a yellow upper wing surface with strong dark scales, which leads to a dark greenish overall color. On the dark edge of the wings there are more or less developed, partially missing yellow submarginal spots . There is a black central spot on the forewing and a yellowish reddish central spot on the hind wing. The edge of the front and outer edge of the forewings and the entire edge of the hind wing is rose-red, as is the head and antennae. The underside of the forewings is white, more or less yellow at the apex . The underside of the hind wings is yellow and the inner part has dark scales. The often double central spot is pearly colored with a red border, which sometimes continues outward in a line. The female is impure white on the upper side, with fewer but more sharply localized dark markings, and on the lower side paler.

Characteristics of the caterpillars

The velvety caterpillar is thick and cylindrical . It has a dark green basic color with fine black dots. A white vertical stripe runs along the sides, in which the black air holes stand on yellow spots. The belly and feet are green, the yellowish green head is spherical and finely haired.

Characteristics of the dolls

The doll is dark green with a dull yellow side stripe. It is pointed at both ends and arched on the back.

Similar species

distribution and habitat

The alpine yellow fling occurs in the Cantabrian Mountains , in the Pyrenees , Alps and Western Carpathians . A small local population exists in the Massif Central . The species can be found on alpine meadows from 900 to 3000 meters above sea ​​level .

Way of life

The caterpillar feeds on various butterflies . Detected are vetch ( Vicia sativa ), Vicia pyrenaica , narrow-vetch ( Vicia angustifolia ), Vicia narbonensis , alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ), Kronwicken ( Coronilla sp.), Trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus ), mountain Spitzkiel ( Oxytropis jacquinii ) and Common Horseshoe clover ( Hippocrepis comosa ).

Flight and caterpillar times

The caterpillar lives in May and June, the butterfly flies in July and August. Sometimes an incomplete second generation occurs in August and September.

Subspecies

Subspecies:

  • Colias phicomone juliana Hospital , 1948, Cantabrian Mountains
  • Colias phicomone oberthueri Verity , [1909] Pyrenees

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Spuler: The butterflies of Europe . tape 1 . E. Schweitzerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1908, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ a b Seitz, Adalbert: Die Großschmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter , 1909, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, p. 64
  3. ^ A b LG Higgins, ND Riley: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-490-01918-0 , p. 49 .
  4. ^ Otakar Kudrna: The distribution atlas of European butterflies . In: oedippus . tape 20 . Apollo Books, Stenstrup Danmark 2002, ISBN 87-88757-56-0 , pp. 120 .
  5. ↑ a b Markku Savela: Lepidoptera and some other lifeforms genus Colias

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