Coenonympha saadi
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Coenonympha saadi from Adalbert Seitz : Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde , 1909 |
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Coenonympha saadi is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Edelfalter (NYMPHALIDAE), which occurs in the Near East.
description
Coenonympha saadi has a pale sand yellow color on the upper side, like the female of the little meadow bird ( C. pamphilus ). In the place of the apical eye of the fore wing there is at most a fine point. On the other hand, there is a blind eye in front of and over the inner corner of the forewings, to which a second is sometimes added. On the underside of all wings a light, darkly shaded line extends from the forewing costa to the anal margin of the hind wings.
The subspecies iphias is much lighter sand yellow, also lighter on the underside, the drawing is paler and the accessory eye spot above the one in front of the anal corner is always missing.
Similar species
- Little meadow bird ( C. pamphilus ) ( Linnaeus , 1758)
- Coenonympha amaryllis ( Stoll , 1782)
Distribution and way of life
Coenonympha saadi occurs in Southeast Turkey , Transcaucasia , Iraq and Iran and is not uncommon. The moths fly on sandy spots in May and June and settle on the bare ground. You are less tied to specific airfields. The subspecies mesopotamica occurs in Mesopotamia . For the subspecies iphias , the annual bluegrass ( Poa annua ) has been proven as a host plant. This occurs at an altitude of 380 to 1500 meters and flies in one generation from the beginning of May to the end of June.
Systematics
Coenonympha saadi was first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1849 in the article on the character of the insect fauna of southern Persia as Satyrus saadi . The article was published in 1849 in a preprint for the 1850 memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences . The taxon described by A. Heyne as var. Mesopotamica Staudinger in Fritz Rühl's The Palaearctic Large Butterflies and their Natural History from 1892 is a more recent synonym for the subspecies iphias , which was described as Hipparchia iphias by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann as early as 1851 .
literature
- The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 145 .
- Vincenz Kollar & Ludwig Redtenbacher : About the character of the insect fauna of southern Persia . Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Vienna, (1850: 52). Pre-print 1849: 11 PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seitz, p. 145
- ^ Coenonympha saadi Kollar, 1849. Butterfly Conservation Armenia, accessed December 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Coenonympha saadi (Kollar, 1849) - Сенница саади. Lepidopetera Caucasi, accessed December 25, 2015 .
Web links
- Coenonympha saadi Kollar, 1849 Butterfly Conservation Armenia
- Coenonympha saadi Kollar, 1849 Russian-Insects.com
- Lepidopetera Caucasi: Coenonympha saadi (Kollar, 1849) - Сенница саади With scans of the first descriptions