Coenonympha amirica
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Coenonympha amirica , syn .: Lyela amirica , is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of the noble butterfly (Nymphalidae), whichoccursin Afghanistan .
description
Coenonympha amirica has a fore wing length of 17 to 18 millimeters. The upper sides of the wings have a black base color and are not marked. There is no eye spot in the forewing apex, from the base to the post-disk region they are maroon. In the females, the brown is lighter and extends further to the edge.
The underside looks the same except that the black areas, especially in the females, are faintly covered with yellow scales. All traces of ocelles , ribbons and other drawings are missing on the rear wings . Some animals (30 percent of females, 10 percent of males) have a small and faint eye-spot in the forewing apex, which is only visible on the underside.
Similar species
- Coenonympha macmahoni , syn.Lyela macmahoni ( Swinhoe , 1908)
- Coenonympha myops , syn.Lyela myops ( Staudinger , 1881)
- Erebia discoidalis ( Kirby , 1837) looksvery similar to Coenonympha amirica on the upper side of the wing
distribution
Coenonympha amirica occurs in Afghanistan in the Koh-e-Baba Mountains at an altitude of 3100 to 3700 meters on rocky slopes that are overgrown with thorny plants in lower elevations. The moths were never found on plains.
Way of life
The moths were collected in June. Nothing is known about the way of life.
Systematics
Coenonympha amirica was described by Colin W. Wyatt in 1961 after a collecting trip in Afghanistan based on 79 specimens as Lyela amirica . The type specimens come from Band-e-Amir , Hazara .
Many authors assign the species to the genus Lyela Swinhoe, 1908 , which consists of three species and was synonymous with Coenonympha by Kodandaramaiah and Wahlberg in 2009 , since the species together with Coenonympha nolckeni form a clade .
literature
- Colin W. Wyatt: Additions to the Rhopalocera of Afghanistan with descriptions of new species and subspecies . In: Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society . tape 15 , no. 1 , 1961, pp. 16 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ U. Kodandaramaiah, N. Wahlberg: Phylogeny and biogeography of Coenonympha butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) . In: Systematic Entomology . tape 34 . Wiley, 2009, p. 315–323 (English, nymphalidae.net [PDF; 529 kB ; accessed on December 15, 2015]).