Southern C-butterfly

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Southern C-butterfly
Polygonia egea

Polygonia egea

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Noble butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Subfamily : Spotted butterfly (Nymphalinae)
Genre : Polygonia
Type : Southern C-butterfly
Scientific name
Polygonia egea
( Cramer , [1775])
Wing undersides

The southern C-butterfly or yellow C-butterfly ( Polygonia egea ) is a butterfly (day butterfly ) from the noble butterfly family (Nymphalidae), which is widespread from southern Europe to eastern Asia.

description

butterfly

The wings are colored yellow-brown on top and drawn with a black and brown pattern of spots. The spots are less pronounced than in similar species. In the first generation, the form balucha , the undersides of the wings are colored yellowish brown marbled and have a conspicuous, white, Y-like markings at the end of the cell. The moths of the second are darker in color and have been described as the form autumnalis and pallida .

Caterpillar

The caterpillar is blackish or slate gray with yellow and black horizontal stripes. The body is covered with fine whitish hairs and dark branched thorns. On the light back there are pairs of large blue-black spots. The stigma orifices are outlined in yellow, and a red-yellow line runs below them. The head is heart-shaped with two spiky appendages.

Doll

The doll is gray-brown, its back bumpy and without metal spots. The head has no tips.

Similar species

  • C-butterfly ( Polygonia c-album ( Linnaeus , 1758)) occurs in Europe, North Africa and Asia to Japan.
  • Polygonia c-aureum ( Linnaeus , 1758) is widespread in East Asia and has post-fiscal blue spots on the upper sides of the wings.
  • Polygonia interposita ( Staudinger , 1881) has more rounded incisions on the wing edge and more extensive black spots. It iswidespreadfrom the Ghissar to the Altai Mountains , in northwest China and in the Himalayas .
  • Polygonia undina ( Grum-Grschimailo , 1890) is very light reddish-brown on top with small spots, of which the spots in the median spaces and the posterior spot are often reduced or partially missing. It occurs from the Ghissar to the Altai Mountains, in northwest China and in the Himalayas.

Occurrence

The southern C-butterfly comes from south-east France and Corsica via Italy, along the eastern Adriatic coast, Greece with Corfu , Crete and other islands, but not to Rhodes , Bulgaria, Turkey, the Middle East, Iran, Central Asia to Afghanistan and Northern India.

Way of life

Polygonia egea flies on dry and hot rocky slopes and gorges from sea level up to 1700 meters, in Asia up to 2500 meters. The moths and caterpillars can also be found in villages if the host plants are found there. They feed in Europe on upright glass herb ( Parietaria officinalis ), in the Transcaucasus on spread glass herb ( Parietaria judaica ) and in Turkey on glass herbs ( Parietaria ) and nettles ( Urtica ).

The moths fly in two to three generations from March to October, with the first generation of a year flying from May, the moths in March come from the year before and have overwintered. In Balochistan , the first, light and rare generation flies in May / June and the second, dark and more frequent generation from the end of June.

literature

  • Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa: All butterflies, over 400 species . 2nd Edition. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-12868-8 , pp. 180 .
  • VK Tuzov, PV Bogdanov, SV Churkin, AV Dantchenko, AL Devyatkin, VS Murzin, GD Samodurov, AB Zhdanko: Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories . Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae. tape 2 . Pensoft, Sofia 2000, ISBN 954-642-095-6 , pp. 27 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape  1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 208 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Tolman, Lewington, p. 180.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Tuzov et al., P. 27.
  4. ↑ Ahmet Omer Koçak, Selma Seven, Marek Bakowski: Priamus . Ed .: Center for Entomological Studies Ankara [Cesa]. tape 7 , no. 4 , August 20, 1996, ISSN  1015-8243 , Belucistan'in (Pakistan) Papilionoidea ve Hesperioidea Faunasi Üzerine Arastirmalar (Lepidoptera), p. 133 (Turkish, archive.org [PDF; accessed January 10, 2015]).

Web links

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