Euphydryas and Melitaea

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Ilia Ustiantcev, 20.09.2007 19:37

Shashechnits are a subfamily of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Representatives of two genera fly to MO - Euphydryas and Melitaea: two from the first genus (aurinia and maturna) and six from the second (phoebe, cinxia, aurelia, athalia, diamina and didyma). All of them occur mainly in June. Of all the above, only cinxia, aurelia, and athalia are not listed in the CC of the Ministry of Defense. Everything except Aurelia was photographed in the south of the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district of the Moscow Region. No more cinxia and didyma - pick up!
Euphydryas aurinia is a red-headed draughtsman. Category 2 in the CC of the Moscow Region.
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Probably one and a half times smaller than the previous ones
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Euphydryas maturna-A large draughtsman. Category 2 in the CC of the Moscow Region.

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Melitaea athalia-Draughtsman Athalia. The most common of our checkers games.
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We need to correct the taxonomy: Athalia and Aurelia belong to the genus Mellicta, while Diamina, which is similar to them, belongs to Melitaea.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insec...inae/index.html

This post was edited by Ilya U-09/20/2007 21: 06

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20.09.2007 21:17, Ilia Ustiantcev

Place-Antsiferovo-Podosinki stage. Phoebus, Avrinia, Athalia and Diamina are definitely there. Mathurna - I don't know, but I've seen it in other places 1-2 km to the north. Athalia is also found in many places around the stage. I didn't see Phoebe anywhere else, and when I saw Diamina, I might have thought of Athalia, so I don't know. Avrinia can also be found around, but the best place, I repeat, is around the stage. (in some fishing reports, I even showed this place where the road turns away from the railway).
Avrinia - May 27, June 6 and 7. Atalia - June 16. Diamina - June 7. Maturna - May 26, and last year, where my dates are worn out. Phoebes - June 6 and 11. Aurelia was photographed in the boarding house "Izumrud" in the Crimea. (on their website there is a link to Google Maps, where it is shown as a red arrow. July 22.

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20.09.2007 22:04, Pavel Morozov

With whiteflies-yes, I brought amurensis and morsei from Primorye, but I only noticed at home when I spread out that there were two species.
Pontia - this is still a place to find, so that at least 2 species fly at once

It's easier with checkers. For example, I saw diamina for the first time like this - there were almost black specimens among the athalias. This "W-W-W" is not for nothing! he swung the net and caught a diamine.
It's the same at the Red Lighthouse - the athalias are immediately clear-rusty like that, the didyms are bright red, the female didyms are sluggish with a heavier flight immediately attract attention; the Aurelias are darker and, as it seemed to me, more lively; the male phoebes are either checkers or mother - of - pearl; the female phoebes are generally immediately determined.

By the color and shade, by the speed and nature of the flight, by some small things in flight, you can determine not only day, but also night (night is sometimes even easier).

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