Coenonympha amaryllis
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Coenonympha amaryllis is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Edelfalter (NYMPHALIDAE) extending from Ural to Korea occurs.
description
The upper side of Coenonympha amaryllis is a single color, sand yellow and sometimes, especially in the female, slightly shaded on the outer edge. The underside is light honey yellow, the hind wings are poured over gray-green. There is a pale line through the disc of the forewings. In front of the outer edge there are rows of ocelles in very different forms. These are most pronounced in the form of accrescens , which has three to four eyes on the underside of the forewing and six almost equally sized, metallic, centered eyes on the underside of the fore wing, which appear on the upper side as thick black dots or as ringlets. The nominate form has slightly smaller, but still complete eyes, of which only a few shine through as delicate black dots on the upper side. In the rinda form , the black base of the eyes has almost disappeared so that they are very light. The entire underside of all wings is heavily tarnished gray.
Distribution and way of life
The nominate form of Coenonympha amaryllis occurs from the southern Urals through all of Siberia, to the Altai in the south and Yakutia and the Magadan Oblast in the north, through Mongolia and north China to the Amur and Korea.
- f. accrescens occurs on the Ussuri in North China, Korea and Russia . Seitz writes that the moths are particularly common in the Beijing area, "where you can see them fluttering around in gardens, courtyards and even on the streets" .
- f. rinda occurs in central and eastern Siberia.
- f. borisovi occurs in the vicinity of Lake Baikal .
Coenonympha amaryllis is a typical inhabitant of steppes, lowland and mountain meadows and is often found in the tundra and on alpine meadows up to an altitude of 1,700 meters and thus above the tree line in the subalpine belt. In the east of the distribution area it also occurs in sparse larch forests and moors. The moths fly from June to August and like to sit on sandy places and stony mountain or field paths. The caterpillar feeds on bluegrass ( Poa ) and overwinters.
Systematics
Coenonympha amaryllis was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782 as Papilio amaryllis in the fourth volume of De uitlandsche kapellen: voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America . The series was edited by him and Pieter Cramer , who had already passed away at the time. The butterflies came from Siberia and were collected by Baron Hans Willem Rengers.
Subspecies
- Coenonympha amaryllis simingica Murayama , 1986 occurs in China in the province of Qinhai at an altitude of 1380–1600 meters on meadows and in forests. The basic color of the underside of the hind wings is deep green.
to form
- accrescens Staudinger , 1901
- rinda Ménétriés , 1859
- borisovi Korshunov & Ivonin , 1996
Synonyms
- amaryllis Cramer (= amarillis autumn )
literature
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 145 .
- Caspar Stoll in Pieter Cramer: De uitlandsche Kapellen: voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America , Volume 4, 1782, p. 210 PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Seitz, p. 145
- ↑ a b c Coenonympha amaryllis Alpheraky, 1881. Russian-Insects.com, accessed January 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Markku Savela - Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Coenonympha amaryllis Stoll, [1782]
- ↑ Huang Ren-Xin, Shû-iti Murayama: Butterfiies of Xinjiang Province, China , Tyô to Ga 43 (1), March 1992, pp. 1-22 online
Web links
- Upper and lower wing images from the collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum
- Markku Savela - Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Coenonympha amaryllis Stoll, [1782]