Brown check eye
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The brown check eye or the small brown eye ( Lasiommata petropolitana ) is a butterfly (day butterfly ) from the noble butterfly family (Nymphalidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of about 35 millimeters. They look very similar to the brown eye ( Lasiommata maera ), but are significantly smaller. The coloring and drawing are almost identical: the upper side of the wings has a gray-brown basic color. A large part of the forewings is colored orange-brown, with a dark brown wipe separating this field. In this orange field, near the wing tip, there is a mostly double white pithed, black spot, the area around which is colored a little lighter orange. On the hind wings there are three to four black spots with white cores, but they are much smaller. The hind wings are colored orange only closely around them. The outermost spot is primarily orange and has only a tiny pitted spot in the middle. The undersides of the forewings are orange-brown and also have a black eye-spot with double white nuclei. On the light brown-gray hind wings in cells 1c - 6 there are brown eye spots with black and white edges and white nuclei.
The difference to the brown eye consists in a dark brown horizontal stripe running on the hind wings, which is missing in the brown eye. The orange color of the brown check eye is partly not as pronounced, which allows the dark lines on the forewings to come into their own. However, this feature is not suitable for differentiation.
Similar species
distribution
The animals occur in parts of Northern Europe , in the Alps and parts of Eastern Europe and Siberia up to the Amur in high altitudes. They live at an altitude of 500 to 2250 meters, in northern Europe from 100 to 1200 meters. They can be found on stony, sandy or rocky slopes and on forest edges and clearings.
Way of life
The moths often rest in open places on the ground or on tree trunks. They sleep on steep cliffs and embankments or on tree trunks or their roots.
Flight time
The animals fly in one generation from late April to early August each year. A second generation is possible in lower areas.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on real sheep fescue ( Festuca ovina ), land equestrian grass ( Calamagrostis epigeios ) and common ball grass ( Dactylis glomerata ).
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heiko Bellmann : The new Kosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 , p. 196.
- ^ A b c d Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Die Tagfalter Europäische und Nordwestafrikas , p. 248, Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- www.schmetterling-raupe.de
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Lasiommata petropolitana at Fauna Europaea