Coenonympha macmahoni

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Coenonympha macmahoni
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Noble butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Subfamily : Eye butterflies (Satyrinae)
Genre : Coenonympha
Type : Coenonympha macmahoni
Scientific name
Coenonympha macmahoni
( Swinhoe , 1908)

Coenonympha macmahoni , Syn. Lyela macmahoni , is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae) in Pakistan occurs.

description

Coenonympha macmahoni has a wingspan of 35 to 40 millimeters. The upper sides of the wings have a black-brown basic color, some males are almost completely black. In the forewing apex there is a blackish eye-spot with an orange border, which is only rarely centered with a tiny white point. The females are similar to the males, the wings are only slightly longer. The antennae are black with wide white and narrow black rings and a white piston.

Similar species

distribution

Coenonympha macmahoni occurs in the area of Quetta , Gawal , Urak and Zhob in the Pakistani province of Balochistan at an altitude of over 2000 meters and flies from March to May.

Systematics

Coenonympha macmahoni was first described by C. Swinhoe in 1908 as Lyela macmahoni , who thus established the genus Lyela . The species was named after AH McMahon who collected the moths. Fruhstorfer classified them as a subspecies of Coenonympha myops .

Many authors assign the species to the genus Lyela consisting of three species , which was synonymous with Coenonympha by Kodandaramaiah and Wahlberg in 2009 , since the species together with Coenonympha nolckeni form a clade .

Synonyms

  • Lyela macmahoni Swinhoe 1908
  • Coenonympha myops macmahoni Fruhstorfer 1911

literature

  • C. Swinhoe: New Eastern Lepidoptera . In: The annals and magazine of natural history, including zoology, botany, and geology . tape 1 , no. 8 . London 1908, p. 80 f . (English, archive.org [PDF; accessed on February 3, 2016]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G. Talbot: Butterflies 2 . In: Fauna of the British India, including Cylon and Burma . 1947, p. 253 (English, archive.org [PDF; accessed on February 3, 2016]).
  2. ↑ 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]).

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