Little blue wanderer
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Little Wandering Blue ( Leptotes pirithous ), male |
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The little wandering blue ( Leptotes pirithous ) is a butterfly ( butterflies ) from the family of the blue blue (Lycaenidae).
features
butterfly
The moths reach a wingspan of about 24 to 27 millimeters. Thin tails at the anal angle are characteristic of the species . The upper sides of the wings of the males are pale blue to gray-blue in color, occasionally with a slight purple tinge, while the females only have a pale blue color in the basal region , which turns into a gray-brown hue on the outside. The hind wings show two black, white-rimmed eye spots on the upper side at the anal corner, one of which is often very indistinct. On the underside of the hind wings there is a reticulated, brownish or gray markings, which however do not contain a whitish band. Two orange-colored, blue-pithed eye spots can be seen at the base of the tails.
Egg, caterpillar, pupa
The egg is yellowish in color and has a fine mesh structure. The caterpillars have green or brownish colored specimens. They have a dark back line and also dark slashes. The doll has a yellowish basic color, from which some brown drawing elements stand out.
Similar species
The moths of the great wandering blue ( Lampides boeticus ) are significantly larger with a wingspan of around 28 to 35 millimeters. This species also has a narrow whitish band on the underside of the hind wing.
distribution
The Little Wandering Blue occurs in the Mediterranean area , Turkey , Saudi Arabia and further east through Asia to India . He also populates many areas in Africa. The species is not native to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Nevertheless, it appears as a migrant butterfly in these countries at sometimes long intervals . The animals live in hot, dry places or in alfalfa fields .
Way of life
The moths fly in several generations per year and can be found from February to October. The caterpillars live on various, sometimes country-specific plants, including various legumes (Fabaceae), rose family (Rosaceae), plumbaginaceae (Plumbaginaceae) Lythraceae (Lythaceae) and heather plants include (Ericaceae).
literature
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa , Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. - Taxonomy and photos
- Leptotes pirithous at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved October 13, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Forster , Theodor A. Wohlfahrt : The butterflies of Central Europe. Volume 2: Butterflies. (Rhopalocera and Hesperiidae). Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1955, DNB 456642188 .
- ↑ Development stages http://gil-t.comlu.com/m/o-26/index.html
- ↑ Distribution http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/leptotes/index.html#pirithous
- ^ A b Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa , Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7
- ↑ Günter Ebert, Erwin Rennwald: The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 2, Tagfalter II (Augenfalter (Satyridae), Bluebirds (Lycaenidae), Dickkopffalter (Hesperidae)) , Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3459-4
- ↑ Helmut Höttinger, Anton Koschuh, Norbert Ramsauer, Wolfgang Schweighofer: Current evidence of the small wandering blueness Leptotes pirithous (LINNAEUS, 1767) from Austria (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). In: Joannea Zoologie. 09, 2007, pp. 45-49 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- ↑ Leptotes pirithous in Switzerland http://www.pieris.ch/seiten/main.php?page=art&art=lyc_pirithous