Little blue alps

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Little blue alps
Female of the Little Blue Blue

Female of the Little Blue Blue

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Bluebirds (Lycaenidae)
Subfamily : Polyommatinae
Genre : Cupid
Type : Little blue alps
Scientific name
Cupid osiris
( Meigen , 1829)

The Small Alpine Bluebird ( Cupido osiris ) is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Bläulinge .

description

Upper wing of the female

The species is characterized by a sexual dichroism, which can be observed very frequently in bluebells . The males of the Little Alpine Bluebird are colored blue-violet on the upper side of the wing and have narrow, black, very sharply delimited marginal lines. The upper sides of the wings of the females are dark brown, the upper sides of the forewings can occasionally be poured over blue.

Similar species

Flight time

The moths fly in one or two generations, depending on the altitude, as early as the end of April or the end of June. In the mountains it can last until the end of August. The second generation depends on the presence of the forage plant (drying up!), It can be incomplete or completely absent.

habitat

The habitat of the Little Alpine Bluebell in Switzerland ( Canton Valais ) includes open, grassy, ​​flower-rich areas such as sun-drenched grasslands with plenty of Esparsette ( Onobrychis viciifolia and Onobrychis montana ). The secondary habitats also include roadsides and rocky cracks.

distribution

The small alpine blue is found in northern, southern and eastern Spain , southern France and western Switzerland . Other deposits can be found on the northwest coast of Italy and in the central Apennines as well as in Switzerland, Austria , Hungary , the Balkans , Greece (mainland and Limnos ) and in the European part of Turkey .

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 , p. 86 .

literature

  • Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7 .
  • Butterflies. 2. Special part: Satyridae, Libytheidae, Lycaenidae, Hesperiidae . In: Günter Ebert, Erwin Rennwald (eds.): The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg . 1st edition. tape 2 . Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1991, ISBN 3-8001-3459-4 .

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