Coenonympha mahometana
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Coenonympha mahometana from Adalbert Seitz : The large butterflies of the earth |
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Coenonympha mahometana is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae), which in the northeastern Kazakhstan occurs.
description
The male of Coenonympha mahometana has soot-brown, the female a copper-brown upper wing surface. The hind wing underside is without ocelles , in their place there are at most a few white points. The whole underside is dusted white.
Similar species
- Red-brown meadow bird ( Coenonympha glycerion (Borkhausen, 1788))
Distribution and way of life
Coenonympha mahometana occurs in various humid biotopes from meadows along rivers from 1,200 meters to alpine meadows at 3,500–3,700 meters in the Tian Shan Mountains in the vicinity of the town of Gulja (Kuldscha). The moths fly from June to July.
Systematics
Coenonympha mahometana was first described by Sergei Nikolajewitsch Alferaki in 1881 in the article Lépidoptères du district de Kouldjà et des montagnes environnantes in the Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae . The moths originated in the Kunges Valley near Gulja and were caught at altitudes of 4,000-7,000 feet.
literature
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 144 .
- Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky: Lépidoptères du district de Kouldjà et des montagnes environnantes . In: Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae . tape 16 , 1881, p. 334–435, plates 14–15 ( PDF [accessed January 11, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seitz, p. 144
- ↑ a b Alphéraky p. 428f
- ↑ Coenonympha mahometana Alpheraky, 1881. Russian-Insects.com, accessed on 12 January 2016 .
