Coenonympha arcania (Linnaeus, 1761)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Coenonymphini → genus Coenonympha → species Coenonympha arcania

Species name(s)

Coenonympha arcania (Linnaeus, 1761) = Papilio arcania Linnaeus, 1761 = Papilio amyntas Poda, 1761 = caucasica Jachontov, 1914 = Coenonympha heroides Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha infraparvocellata Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha lecerfi De Lesse 1949 = Coenonympha lineigera Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha lundbladi Bryk 1946 = Coenonympha addenda Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha anticaeca Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha biocellata Pionneau 1932 = Coenonympha cephalidarwiniana Verity 1953 = Coenonympha confluens Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha crassolimbo Verity 1953 = Coenonympha diaphana Schawerda 1942 = Coenonympha luxurians Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha marmorata Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha mattiaca Metz 1928 = Philea orientalis Rebel, 1904 = Coenonympha pallida Revon 1939 = Coenonympha rufobrunnea Warnecke 1942 = Coenonympha secunda Verity 1953 = Coenonympha venata Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha baltica Goltz 1932. [9, 10, 187]

Pearly Heath.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 12.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].
Из Европейских стран отсутствует только в Англии и Ирландии, а также на некоторых островах Средиземного моря. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Верх переднего крыла — ржаво-желтый, с темно-бурой каймой, заднего — черно-бурый. На исподе переднего крыла перед его вершиной расположен небольшой глазок с белым ядром. [85].

General info about Imago

Местообитания — лесные просеки, луга, редкоствольные леса и поляны. [85].

Imago lifespan

Лёт — с мая по сентябрь в одном или двух поколениях (с июня по июль — Лапмерт, 2003). [85].

General info about Larva

Личинка зеленая, без волосков, с темно-зеленой же спинной полоской. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].
Различные виды перловника. [85].

Larva lifespan

Гусеница аркании живет с лета до мая следующего года. [85].

Pupa

Куколка «Красноватая с белым». [85].

Subspecies of Coenonympha arcania

Coenonympha arcania baqueroensis Bustillo, 1973. [187]
C. a. momos Fruhstorfer, 1910. [187]
C. a. salomonis Bustillo, 1973. [187]
C. a. satyrionides Stauder, 1928. [187]
C. a. skypetarum Rebel & Zerny, 1932. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Igor Sakhno.

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
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org