Coenonympha sinica
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Underside of Coenonympha sinica from Adalbert Seitz : The large butterflies of the earth |
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Coenonympha sinica is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Edelfalter (NYMPHALIDAE), which in Tibet occurs.
description
Coenonympha sinica is similar to the red-brown meadow bird . The top looks the same except that the edge has long blue and white fringes instead of yellow and white. The hind wing underside is mouse gray and provided with a few, uneven ocelles . From the end of the cell, an elongated, white, oblique wipe moves towards the center of the outer edge, which it does not reach.
Similar species
- Red-brown meadow bird ( Coenonympha glycerion ) ( Borkhausen , 1788)
Distribution and way of life
Coenonympha sinica flies in steppes in July and August in Tibet (Nian-Chian chain and Honton river) at an altitude of up to 3000 meters.
Systematics
Coenonympha sinica was first described by Sergei Nikolajewitsch Alferaki in the Entemologische Zeitung in 1888 on the basis of butterflies that Grigori Nikolajewitsch Potanin had collected in 1885 and 1886. In Seitz ', Die Palearktischen Tagfalter from 1909, the species status is questioned.
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: New Lepidoptera . In: Entomological Newspaper . tape 49 , 1888, pp. 66 f . ( PDF ).