Coenonympha dorus
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Coenonympha dorus is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae), which occurs in northwest Africa, South-West Europe and the Middle Italy. The specific epithet is derived from Dorus, the progenitor of the Dorians .
description
The moths have a large black eye spot (ocelle) with a white core at the apex of the underside of the forewing, sometimes also in the shape of an eight with two white cores. The stain is not cored on the upper side. On the underside of the hind wing there is an irregular row of ocelles in a wide cream-colored discal band, the ocelles of which resemble the large ocelle on the forewing. A thin lead line runs along the outer edges, which becomes weaker towards the rear at the front wing.
The male has dark brown forewings with a blackish brown border that may have traces of rusty yellow. The orange-colored hind wings have a wide, well-defined front edge in the same color as the fore wings. The black and non-nucleated ocelles on the upper side of the hind wing of the vein M 2 to A 1 + 2 form an inwardly convex line in contrast to the almost straight line in Coenonympha vaucheri .
In the form of bieli Staudinger from northern Portugal and northwestern Spain, the males and females are almost completely dark brown on top, so that almost all red-yellow has disappeared from the disc of the hind wings. The ocelles on the upper side of the hind wing are only indicated. The drawing on the underside has less contrast, the ocelles are smaller, the light band is narrower and the lead line is completely reduced.
The form aquilonia Higgins from central Italy has a narrow, yellowish-brown band in the post-disk region and small ocelles.
Large, dark, circular, orange-rimmed and seedless ocelles on the upper side in the apex of the forewings has the shape austauti Oberthür from western Algeria. The white band on the underside of the hind wings is much stronger and more straightforward.
Similar species
distribution
Coenonympha dorus occurs in Africa from northeast Morocco to western Algeria. In Europe, the species is distributed on the Iberian Peninsula, in France from the eastern Pyrenees to Lozère , in the high Alps , the Maritime Alps in France and Italy and on the Apennines .
habitat
Coenonympha dorus often lives between shrubs in hot, dry, grassy and bushy places such as forest clearings, rocky slopes and canyons.
Way of life
The caterpillar of Coenonympha dorus feeds on various types of ostrich grass ( Agrostis ) and sheep fescue ( Festuca ovina ).
Flight time
Coenonympha dorus flies in one generation per year (univotile) from early June to mid-August.
Systematics
The forms bieli Staudinger , 1901 and aquilonia Higgins , 1968 are considered by some authors as subspecies. The form austauti Oberthür 1881 is seen by some authors as a subspecies or species. Coenonympha fettigii Oberthür , 1874 is considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Coenonympha dorus .
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Spuler: The butterflies of Europe . tape 1 . E. Schweitzerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1908, p. 48 .
literature
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . 1st edition. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 243 .
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa: All butterflies, over 400 species . 2nd Edition. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-12868-8 , pp. 312 .
- Arnold Spuler: The Butterflies of Europe . tape 1 . E. Schweitzerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1908, p. 48 .
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 145 .
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa - Coenonympha dorus
- RARA-Interactif - Coenonympha dorus (French)
- Coenonympha dorus in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved July 14, 2014
