Coenonympha mongolica
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Coenonympha mongolica from Adalbert Seitz : The large butterflies of the earth |
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Coenonympha mongolica is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae), which in the northeastern Kazakhstan and northwestern China occurs.
description
Coenonympha mongolica is one of the largest moths of its genus with a wingspan of 39 to 44 mm in males and 45 mm in females. The upper sides of the wing are densely dusted blue-white, so that only the outer edge of the forewings and the tip of the hind wings appear in the sooty black-brown basic color. Both wings have a few white ocelles on the upper side postdiscally . On the fore wing only the first ocelle is core black, on the hind wing there are several, especially the two rearmost ones. The undersides of the wings are lead-gray, from the tip of the cell of the hind wing a white wipe runs towards the outer edge. A thin, silvery, shiny lead line runs along the edge of the wing.
Distribution and way of life
Coenonympha mongolica occurs in alluvial forests and bushes on river terraces in the Tian Shan Mountains in the area surrounding the city of Gulja (Kuldscha) in the northwest of the People's Republic of China and in northeast Kazakhstan on the Ili River . The species is not rare and flies from May to June. The caterpillars feed on sweet grasses of the genus Achnatherum .
Systematics
Coenonympha mongolica 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 . He received the three butterflies from Nicolas Grigorevich Verschoff and came from the area around Gulja.
literature
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 147 .
- 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
- ↑ a b c Alphéraky p. 426f
- ↑ a b Seitz, p. 147
- ↑ Coenonympha mongolica Alpheraky, 1881. Russian-Insects.com, accessed on 11 January 2016 .
