Lycaena alciphron (Rottemburg, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Lycaeninae → tribe Lycaenini → genus Lycaena → species Lycaena alciphron

Species name(s)

Lycaena alciphron (Rottemburg, 1775) = Heodes alciphron = Papilio alciphron Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio virgaurea Hufnagel, 1766 = Papilio lampetie [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio hipponoe Esper, 1781 = Papilio hiere Fabricius, 1787 = Thersamonolycaena alciphron. [9, 10, 85]

Purple-shot Copper.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

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; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

Primary colors

Orange, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

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

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Heodes alciphron. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, 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, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, Average -Uralsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian,South Ural. [3].
От Западной Европы до Ирана. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Самцы ssp. gordius отличаются от нормальных окрасом — они совсем не фиолетовые, а красто-оранжевые.А [85].

General info about Imago

Места лёта — сырые луга и опушки. Часто садится на цветы ежевики и чабреца. [85].

Imago lifespan

В мае, июне, а также и в июле и августе. [85].

General info about Larva

Гусеницы Lycaena alciphron матово-зеленые, со светлыми полосами по бокам. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Rumex. [28].
Щавель. [85].

Larva lifespan

Активны с лета до мая следующего года. [85].

Pupa

Куколка: грязно-желтый фон, черные точки по нему. [85].

Subspecies of Lycaena alciphron

Lycaena alciphron acutipennis Chou & Zhang, 1994. [9]
L. a. aetnea Turati, 1911. [187]
L. a. alciphron. [9]
L. a. bellieri Oberthür, 1910. [187]
L. a. burgundiae Bellenger & Descimon, 1977. [187]
L. a. calabrus Verity, 1913. [187]
L. a. chairemon (Fruhstorfer, 1917). [9]
L. a. chairemon Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]
L. a. citragordius Verity, 1946. [187]
L. a. cumanicus Szabó, 1956. [187]
L. a. deinareton Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]
L. a. denisei Vigneau, 1949. [187]
L. a. emarginata Warnecke, 1942. [187]
L. a. epidelion Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]
L. a. fruginus Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]
L. a. gaudeolus Fruhstorfer, 1909. [187]
L. a. gordius Schultz, 1905. [187]
L. a. granadensis Ribbe, 1905. [187]
L. a. heracleana (Blachier, 1908). [9]
L. a. insignis de Sagarra, 1924. [187]
L. a. madytus Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]
L. a. melibaeus (Staudinger, 1878). [9]
L. a. mirabilis Verity, 1919. [187]
L. a. morvandica Dellenger & Descimon, 1977. [187]
L. a. naryna Oberthür, 1910. [187]
L. a. naryna (Oberthür, 1910). [9]
L. a. ochsenfeldinus Betti, 1977. [187]
L. a. paupercula de Sagarra, 1924. [187]
L. a. rhaetica Beuret, 1952. [187]
L. a. romanorum Fruhstorfer, 1909. [187]
L. a. rubida Korshunov, 1977. [9]
L. a. ruehli Turati, 1911. [187]
L. a. ultragordius Verity, 1926. [187]
L. a. veronius Fruhstorfer, 1930. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Maxim Schwarz, Irina Nikulina.

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