Polygonia gigantea

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Polygonia gigantea
Female of Polygonia gigantea

Female of Polygonia gigantea

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Noble butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Subfamily : Spotted butterfly (Nymphalinae)
Genre : Polygonia
Type : Polygonia gigantea
Scientific name
Polygonia gigantea
( Leech , 1890)
Polygonia gigantea spp. bocki

Polygonia gigantea is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae), which occurs in China.

description

Polygonia gigantea is larger than the C-butterfly, which also occurs in Central Europe . It has similarly cut but wider wings and a very different underside on which a blue submarginal zigzag band is striking. In the rainy season, a white hook-shaped mark is also formed on the underside of the forewing, in addition to the white hook on the underside of the hind wing typical of the moths of the genus. The dry season is known as extensa leech . It has more blunt, serrated wings with a lighter ground color, less dark markings and is washed out. The underside is marbled in lighter tones.

The subspecies bocki Rothschild has a pale ocher yellow base color and a distinctly darker pattern. The light hemline on both wings is covered by the edge band. The outer row of spots on the forewing is transformed into a wide, irregular transverse band. The rear edge stain has merged with the stain at the end of the cell. The double spot in the cell is enlarged to a broad square and the root field is heavily darkened. The underside, on the other hand, is lighter, cloudy olive-yellow, dark brown marbled and dashed. The blue zigzag band is very clear on the outer edge from the rear corner, but breaks off in the middle of the edge.

Similar species

  • The C-butterfly ( Polygonia c-album ) ( Linné , 1758) occurs in Europe, North Africa and Asia to Japan.
  • Polygonia c-aureum ( Linné , 1758) is widespread in East Asia and has post-fiscal blue spots on the upper sides of the wings.
  • Polygonia egea ( Cramer , [1775]) is from southern Europe via Asia Minor and Central Asia to Afghanistan spread and has fewer black drawing elements, especially basal on the rear upper wing surface lacks the black.
  • Polygonia interposita ( Staudinger , 1881) has more rounded incisions on the wing edge and more extensive black spots. It is widespread from the Ghissar to the Altai Mountains, in northwest China and in the Himalayas .

Occurrence

Polygonia gigantea occurs in western and central China. The type specimen is a female, was caught in Garzê (Tatsienlu) at an altitude of 7500 feet (about 2300 meters) and had a wingspan of 72 millimeters.

Synonyms

  • Grapta gigantea Leech , 1890
  • Grapta bocki Rothschild , 1894
  • Grapta erebina Oberthür , 1911
  • Polygonia giganteum
  • Aglais gigantea

literature

  • The Palaearctic butterflies . In: Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The large butterflies of the earth . tape 1 . Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart 1909, p. 208 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c V. K. 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 .
  3. ^ John Henry Leech: Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea , 1892-4, London, p. 263
  4. ↑ Nymphalis gigantea in Lepidoptera.pro

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