Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Самец (Aricia agestis)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Aricia → species Aricia agestis

Species name(s)

Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Papilio agestis [Schiffermüller], 1775 = alexis (Scopoli, 1763) = medon (Hufnagel, 1776) = astrarche (Bergsträsser, [1779]) = Papilio medon Hüfnagel, 1776. [9, 10, 187]

Brown Argus.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

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; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky.

Forewing length

14—15 mm.

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 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia,Romania, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South West Siberian , Southern Urals. [3].
Habitat: Europe, in the north - to 56 ° N. w. Thus, in England and Scandinavia, it is found only in the south, and then only in some places. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing - about 1.5 cm. Brown on the wings there, but blue - no, despite the fact that "copper-butterfly." From similar species it should be notedAricia artaxerxes. [5].

General info about Imago

Brown copper-butterfly a frequent guest on the upland meadows, flying more often on roadsides and in the limestone mountains at an altitude of 1000 m. [5].

Imago lifespan

In central Russia time volley from mid-May to September 3 generations. [PC93].
2 generation. The butterflies of the first generation fly in May-June, the second - from mid-July to early August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Geraniaceae, Erodium. [28].
Sunflower, geranium (Erodium cicutarium). Geranium, such as meadow geranium (Geranium pratense) [5].

Larva lifespan

Aricia agestis caterpillars can be caught from September to May, and in addition - in June and July. [5].

Subspecies of Aricia agestis

Aricia agestis aestiva Zeller, 1847. [187]
A. a. agestis. [9]
A. a. albolimbata Lempke, 1955. [187]
A. a. alpiummagna Verity, 1946. [187]
A. a. azerbaidzhana Obraztsov, 1935. [9]
A. a. caeruleosignata Verity, 1946. [187]
A. a. calida Chavigneire. [9]
A. a. delphica Wnukowsky, 1929. [187]
A. a. discojuncta Lempke, 1955. [187]
A. a. gallica Oberthür, 1910. [187]
A. a. infracandica Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. infracaotica Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. infralbens Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. infraplumbea Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. montiummagna Verity, 1928. [187]
A. a. nazira (Moore, 1865). [9]
A. a. pallidefulva Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. pelorion Szabó, 1956. [187]
A. a. precursoria Beuret, 1951. [187]
A. a. retrojuncta Lempke, 1955. [187]
A. a. sachalinensis Matsumura, 1919. [187]
A. a. subcalida Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. subornata Verity, 1920. [187]
A. a. supracuneata Lempke, 1955. [187]
A. a. unicolor Lempke, 1955. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov, Svyatoslav Knyazev.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov