Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802) = Papilio dispar Haworth, 1802 = Thersamonia dispar = Thersamolycaena dispar = Thersamonolycaena dispar = Papilio hippothoe Esper, 1778. [9, 10, 187]

Large Copper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8416

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 9.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #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; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

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 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland,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-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Ареал вида в целом — Центральная и Южная Европа. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Крупный червонец, длина переднего крыла которого достигает 2 см. Самцы с огненно-красным верхом крыльев, самки заметно темнее, с черными точками на передних и сплошным черным полем на задних крыльях. Известны f. batava Obth. с 1 черной точкой на передних и характерной черной каймой на задних крыльях — из Нидерландов, f. rutilus Werneburg, 1864 с типичными для вида признаками — с юго-востока Центральной Европы. [85].

General info about Imago

Местообитания: болота и влажные, пойменные луга, но может появляться и на сухих полях с люцерной или клевером. [85].

Imago lifespan

Sep [PC910].
Бабочка летает в мае—июне и июле—августе. [85].

General info about Larva

Стадия гусеницы у непарной многоглазки может продолжаться от двух недель до нескольких месяцев. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Rumex hydrolapathum, Rumex crispus, Rumex aquaticus. [28].
Щавель. [85].

Larva lifespan

Гусеница Lycaena dispar проживает с августа до мая следующего года. [85].

Pupa

Куколка серая. [85].

Subspecies of Lycaena dispar

Lycaena dispar antinigrescens Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. aurata Leech, 1887. [9]
L. d. batavus Oberthür, 1923. [187]
L. d. burdigalensis Lucas, 1913. [187]
L. d. carueli Le Moult, 1945. [187]
L. d. centralitaliae Verity, 1946. [187]
L. d. centroelongata Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. dahurica (Graeser, 1888). [9]
L. d. decolorata Beuret, 1954. [187]
L. d. depuncta Beuret, 1954. [187]
L. d. dispar. [9]
L. d. extincta Müller, 1920. [187]
L. d. festiva (Krulikovsky, 1909). [9]
L. d. gronieri Bernardi, 1963. [187]
L. d. hippothoe Schiffermüller, 1775. [187]
L. d. hungarica Szabó, 1956. [187]
L. d. ignita Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. infraparvipuncta Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. italiae Verity, 1946. [187]
L. d. latefasciata Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. ornata Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. postdisconulla Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. postnigricosta Lempke, 1954. [187]
L. d. ramaini Le Moult, 1946. [187]
L. d. rutila (Werneburg, 1864). [9]
L. d. rutilus Werneburg, 1864. [187]
L. d. supradiscoelongata Lempke, 1954. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Igor Sakhno, Irina Nikulina.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Anatoliy Kuzmin.

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
[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
[PC910] Anatoliy Kuzmin