Coenonympha myops
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Coenonympha myops is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae), which occurs in Central Asia.
description
Coenonympha myops is reminiscent of an erebie through its coloring and pattern . The upper side of the forewing is dark copper-colored in the discus , a relatively large black ocelle sits in the apex . The upper side of the hind wing is dark brown with lighter fringes. The underside of the forewing looks like the upper side, only the ocelle has a fine white core and a light border and the wing tip is dusted white. The underside of the hind wing is marbled gray-brown, discally a somewhat darker central band runs, behind which there are six gray-yellow ocelles, which have shrunk to light points.
The subspecies tekkensis ( Staudinger , 1886) also has a larger, more pronounced ocelle on the upper side, the base color of the underside of the hind wing is so dark that the central band hardly stands out.
Similar species
- Coenonympha macmahoni ( Swinhoe 1908)
- Coenonympha amirica ( Wyatt , 1961)
- Coenonympha nolckeni ( Verschoff , 1874)
- Erebia ottomana Herrich-Schäffer , [1847]
distribution
Coenonympha myops occurs in Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan , Iran , southern Uzbekistan and Afghanistan to the Djungarian Alatau and southern Altai . The subspecies tekkensis is known from the Achal-Tekke oasis group and the Kopet-Dag Mountains. The subspecies mangystavica Lukhtanov , 1994 occurs in western Kazakhstan ( Mangyshlak Plateau ).
Way of life
Coenonympha myops lives in steppes and semi-deserts up to an altitude of 2000 meters and flies from March to May.
Systematics
Coenonympha myops was first described by Otto Staudinger as Erebia myops in the Entomologische Zeitung on the basis of three male butterflies that had already flown away. Many authors assign it to the genus Lyela Swinhoe, 1908 , which consists of three species , which Kodandaramaiah and Wahlberg 2009 synonymized with Coenonympha , since the species together with Coenonympha nolckeni form a clade .
literature
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 143 .
- Otto Staudinger : Contribution to the Lepidoptera fauna of Central Asia . In: Entomological Newspaper . tape 7-9 , 1881, pp. 298 f . ( archive.org [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seitz, p. 143
- ↑ a b Staudinger, p. 296
- ^ A b Lyela myops (Staudinger, 1881). Russian-Insects.com, accessed December 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 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]).