Melanargia lachesis (Hubner, 1790)

Имаго Melanargia lachesis

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Melanargiini → genus Melanargia → species Melanargia lachesis

Species name(s)

Melanargia lachesis (Hubner, 1790) = Papilio lachesis Hübner, 1790 = Lachesis ruscinonensis Oberthür & Houlbert, 1922 = Melanargia galathea lachesis = Melanargia ampliusangulata Bryk 1940 = Melanargia catalana de Sagarra 1926 = Melanargia chlorinda Oberthür 1936 = Melanargia semi-cataleuca Varin 1955. [9, 10, 187]

Iberian Marbled White, Spanish Marbled White.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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November

December

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Spain, Portugal, France. [1].
Andorra, Spain (mainland), Portugal (mainland), France (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Melanargia lachesis

Melanargia lachesis lundbladi Bryk, 1940. [187]
M. l. rutae Bryk, 1940. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Dmitriy Pozhogin, Leon Ortlieb.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org