Carcharodus orientalis
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Carcharodus orientalis is a butterfly fromthe thick-headed butterfly family (Hesperiidae).
features
The fore wing length is 14 to 15 millimeters. The top is gray to brown in color with a slightly yellowish tone. The forewings are identical to those of the Heilziest thick-headed butterfly ( Carcharodus flocciferus ). There are clear white discal and submarginal spots on the hind wings . The underside of the forewings is generally gray, that of the hind wings is mostly light gray with washed-out light spots. On the underside of the forewings, the male also has strong, dark hair growth. Both sexes have the same wing drawings. The variation of the moths in size, but also in the coloring of the upper side of the wings is considerable.
Geographical occurrence and habitat
Carcharodus orientalis is along the Dalmatian coast, Montenegro ,? Albania , Macedonia , Romania , Bulgaria and Greece , widespread eastwards in Asia Minor , Northern Iran and in the Ukraine (Crimea), Caucasus region as far as Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. A small isolated occurrence exists in Northern Hungary . In the south there is a small occurrence in Wadi Al Hisha ( Jordan ), the species is also found in Israel. The butterfly can be found on dry, hot, rocky and flower-rich slopes, ravines, (poor) meadows and abandoned cultivated land up to 1500 meters.
Way of life
The moths fly in two or three generations from April to August. The eggs are laid on different species of mint family (Lamiaceae) (e.g. Zieste ( Stachys ) and others). The caterpillar will probably overwinter in the last instar.
Systematics
Carcharodus orientalis is currently divided into at least three subspecies:
- Carcharodus orientalis orientalis , the nominate subspecies
- Carcharodus orientalis maccabaeus Hemming, 1925, Jordan, Israel
- Carcharodus orientalis teberdinus Devyatkin, 1990, Southern Russia.
swell
literature
- Lionel G. Higgins, Norman D. Riley: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . 1st edition. Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-490-01918-0 .
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 290 .
- ↑ a b c Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 266 .
- ↑ Laszlo Rakosy and Zoltan Varga: Charcharodius [Carcharodus] orientalis Reverdin, 1913 (Hesperiidae) and Melitaea punica telona Fruhhstorfer [Fruhstorfer], 1908 (Nymphalidae) (Lepidoptera) in the Romanian fauna. Entomologica Romanica. 5: 45-49, Cluj, 2001 ZDB ID 1390192-8
- ↑ VV Tshikolovets: The Butterflies of Ukraine. Sbirnyk prac Zoologitsnogo Muzeji, 37: 13–62, Kiev 2005 PDF
- ↑ Ahmad Katbeh-Bader, Zuhair S. Amr and Suhail Isma'el: The butterflies of Jordan. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 37: 11-26, 1998 (2003) PDF ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ after Wolfgang Wagner
- ↑ AL Devyatkin: Review of hesperiids of the genus Carcharodus Hbn. (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) of the fauna of the USSR. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 69 (4): 924-940, Moscow 1990 ISSN 0367-1445
