Identification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

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31.07.2007 23:23, okoem

Are Semele and pellucida the same thing? If not, how do they differ?

Golubyanki
4 - Why is it necessarily Icarus? It may well be thersites. Both species are quite variable and differ only in the spot in the basal area of the forewing, which is not visible in the photo. Of course, Icarus is generally a more widespread species, but not everywhere. In the area of Feodosia, for example, thersite sometimes flies in the mass, and icarus is rare.

Judging by the Atlas of the Mace-Moustaches of Eastern Europe, Semele and pellucida have slight external differences.

Scoops
5. Cryphia rectilinea (Warren, 1909)
6. Cryphia algae (Fabricius, 1775)
9. Or maybe it's Catocala sponsa (Linnaeus, 1767)?
14. Cryphia algae (Fabricius, 1775)

Moth
3,4-I agree that Scopula marginepunctata (Goeze, 1781)

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01.08.2007 8:16, Guest

Samara butterflies help to identify 2 already seem to have been identified as Zygaena loti, but 4 can be a different species, or all the same.

1 - Pontia edusa.
3-Erebia aethiops male. In E. medusa, the eyes on the forewing are on separate reddish spots that are not fused into a ligature. In E. ligea, the ligature on the underside of the forewing is different - wider, quite characteristic of this species. Here, the bottom of the front wing actually repeats the top pattern. And the underside of the hindwing is unicolored brown; in E. aethiops, there are just three white dots (possibly partially reduced), and they are probably not visible. And medusa has eyes, ligea has a white sash...
6-Melitaea didyma female
8-More similar to Plebejus idas, but would not exclude P. argus and P. argyrognomon - after all, they have quite a large variability. There would still be a photo of the top, it would be possible to say with a higher probability

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01.08.2007 9:25, Andylog

Euryale, according to my information, occupies the taiga part and the mountains-the Urals, In Europe - the Carpathians, Alps, etc.

And by the way. I don't know if you are familiar with the publication Taxonomic review of the mace-whiskered lepidopteran assemblages Erebia euryale and Erebia adyte

According to it, E. euryale corresponds to Erebia ilmena = Erebia euryale iremelica and several selected subspecies of Erebia euryaloides. There, by the way, there are also photos of imago. All Ural subspecies are characterized by a reduction in the eyes on the sling.

In general, the variability within these species is very high. European subspecies are quite different.

This post was edited by Andylog - 01.08.2007 09: 40

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