Coenonympha leander
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Coenonympha leander , also Russian hay butterfly , is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of noble butterflies (Nymphalidae), which occurs from Southeast Europe to Central Asia. The specific epithet is derived from Leander , the Hero's lover.
description
The male looks almost like the white-banded meadow bird ( Coenonympha arcania ) on the upper side of the wing . The front wing is yellowish red, schwarzrandig and the hind wings is dark rußbraun and it seems the eye spots (ocelli) the bottom of something through. The female is a little lighter with a narrower forewing margin. The underside is yellow-brown, the hind wings greyish green covered with six even ocelles, of which the anal angle can sometimes be doubled.
Similar species
- Coenonympha orientalis ( Rebel , 1910) has a white band in the post-disk region of the underside of the hind wing.
distribution
Coenonympha leander occurs in the southern Balkans in the southern Carpathians of Romania, in Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria and in northern Greece in the Vernon , Askion , Pindos and Varnous Mountains and in Eastern Thrace from 350 to 1900 meters altitude . Also in Turkey, but not along the Mediterranean coast, in the Crimea , in northwest Iran and Transcaucasia to the southern Urals .
Way of life
The moths can be found in warm forest clearings, forest edges with lots of grass, flowering plants and bushes. Nothing is known about the way of life of the caterpillar.
Flight time
Coenonympha leander flies in one generation per year (univotile) from mid-May to early August. It will fly in Thrace from mid-April.
Systematics
The Coenonympha orientalis is considered by some authors to be a subspecies of C. leander .
Synonyms
- Coenonympha pseudoamyntas de Sagarra , 1930
literature
- 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. 316 .
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . 1st edition. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 243 .
- Arnold Spuler: The Butterflies of Europe . tape 1 . E. Schweitzerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1908, p. 47 .
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 143 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spuler, p. 47.
- ↑ Seitz, p. 143
- ↑ a b c Tolman, Lewington, p. 243
- ^ Matt Rowlings: Coenonympha leander - Russian Heath. In: European Butterflies. Retrieved July 1, 2014 .
