Yellow ring butterfly
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Yellow-ringed butterfly ( Lopinga achine ), underside of wing |
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The yellow ring butterfly ( Lopinga achine ) is a butterfly (day butterfly ) from the family of the noble butterfly (Nymphalidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 50 to 55 millimeters. They have gray-brown wing tops with large, black, thin yellow-edged spots near the wing edges.
distribution
They occur only locally and sporadically in Europe , Russia , northern Central Asia and Japan . They live in small clearings with bushes and in hedges on the edge of the forest. They can be found on both moist and dry soils, which can be basic or non-basic. Their populations are in decline in many places; It is a strong butterfly species from deciduous forests with a certain grass undergrowth, which is rarely found, but occasionally lives in climatically favored places but also on the edges of coniferous forests.
Flight time
The animals fly in one generation from early June to late July.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of pinnate twins ( Brachypodium pinnatum ) and wood twinks ( Brachypodium sylvaticum ).
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Die Tagfalter Europäische und Nordwestafrikas , p. 249, Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7
- ^ Heinz Habeler , Lepidopterologische Nachrichten aus der Steiermark , Joannea Zool. 5: 35-47 (2003)
literature
- Hans-Josef Weidemann: Butterfly: observe, determine , Naturbuch-Verlag Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89440-115-X
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- Lopinga achine at Fauna Europaea
- State of Salzburg, nature protection: yellow butterfly
- www.schmetterling-raupe.de
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)