Photo #29572: Apatura metis

15.12.2014 14:24, Vasiliy Feoktistov

I agree.

15.12.2014 9:02, Alexandr Zhakov

The grounds for the transfer was not.

15.12.2014 9:01, Alexandr Zhakov Corrected data.

Apatura ilia / Yuriy Karpov → Apatura metis / Irina Nikulina.

17.11.2014 4:54, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Irina, I wrote that followed the grounds specified Yuri .... Now I do not remember what prompted am not at home (from the bodies. I write). I will try to justify later if happens. However, after reading your post already I think I could be wrong. Recheck necessary.

17.11.2014 3:35, Irina Nikulina

This image has been transferred in the summer when long time without visiting the site, and now I try to understand. The link Basil looked, according to what principle transferred photos and did not understand (. Yuri Karpov: «Apatura ilia, on the underside of the front wing bright black spot, which does not have Apatura metis» The absence of a spot at the half-breed in question? In some subspecies of metis, e.g., A. m.irtyshika, really black eye on your PC is less than (but not absent), but in the south of Primorye Territory subspecies (often stands out even as a separate species) A. metis substituta Butler, 1873. Please see the images of this subspecies have V.V.Dubatolova http: //szmn.eco.nsc.ru/old/picts/butterfly/Nymphalidae/Apatura_metis_substituta.htm http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/nymphal/metis.htm (in nature) and is http: // www.pteron-world.com/topics/classfication/nymphalidae/apaturinae/apaturinae1.html Black spot is always present, and it is quite large.It happens the same in size as that of subspecies of Apatura ilia ussuriensis. But please pay attention to such otlichiya- have ilia is mottled black spot - in a distinct yellow-brown rim, as here http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/29574 (especially for comparison gave a reference to Elijah from the same place). And metis substituta black spot - a blurred oval ocher-yellow background.The second feature is very characteristic metis- noticeable outward protrusion in the middle of the middle light bands on the LC, the outer limit of the sling clear. Again, you can compare with the photo # 29574 (or any other page.) - There is no projection of Elijah, and the outer boundary of a blurred.Another feature - 4 black dots (spots) on the underside at the root of the VC at the metis substituta located on red-yellow background, while at the ilia often the background light (photo # 29574) I understand that the variability of species of large, Elijah lot local forms, and these types of fly almost simultaneously and often in some habitats, it is also an AI Kurentsov noted.I assume that the transfer to the faithful Elijah, but I would like to be confident of the correctness of the definition. Therefore, I ask to help deal with this photo. Or at least explain about the bright black spot, which served as the basis for the transfer of two photos.

23.08.2014 6:32, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Not identified → Apatura ilia / Confidently identified / Yuriy Karpov.

23.08.2014 6:32, Vasiliy Feoktistov

If you follow the lines, already stated in the commentary to Yuri http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/5796 then I agree and stand.

22.08.2014 22:33, Yuriy Karpov

Apatura ilia

29.05.2014 1:14, Irina Nikulina

I thinkApatura metis, subspecies A. m. substituta Butler, 1873