Coenonympha semenovi
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Coenonympha semenovi from Adalbert Seitz : The large butterflies of the earth |
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Coenonympha semenovi is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae) in China occurs.
description
Coenonympha semenovi is one of the smallest species of the genus Coenonympha . The upper side of the wings of the males is cloudy ocher yellow and that of the females is dirty white. There are some very noticeable white spots on the underside of the hind wings that show through to the upper side.
Similar species
- Coenonympha sunbecca Eversmann , 1843
Distribution and way of life
Coenonympha semenovi flies in July and August in Tibet and western China up to an altitude of 3000 meters in steppes.
Systematics
Coenonympha semenovi was first described by Sergei Nikolajewitsch Alferaki in 1887 in the Mémoires des Lépidoterès and named after the Vice President of the Russian Geographical Society , PP Séménoff.
The subspecies jiadengyuica Huang & Murayama , 1992 is described from the Altai at an altitude of 1380 meters. The basic color of the upper sides of the wings is gray-brown and the white spots are missing. A white band with a black border extends into the submarginal area on the underside of the wing. There is a white spot near the apex . There is a white spot in cells 2 to 7.
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: Diagnoses de quelques lépidoptères inédits du Thibet . In: Nikolai Michailowitsch Romanow (ed.): Mémoires des Lépidoterès . tape 3 , 1887, p. 405 ( PDF ).