Lycaena tityrus (Poda, 1761)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Lycaena tityrus (Poda, 1761) = Heodes tityrus = Papilio tityrus Poda, 1761 = acrion (Pontoppidan, 1763) = Papilio dorilis Hufnagel, 1766 = dorilas (Rottemburg, 1775) = Papilio circe [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio xanthe [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio phocas Rottemburg, 1775 = Polyommatus dorilis orientalis Staudinger, 1881 = Palaeoloweia opisthochros Verity, 1939 = argentifex Bálint, 1990 = Lycaena dorilis. [9, 10, 85]

Sooty Copper.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 7.

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.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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April

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August

September

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November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Heodes tityrus. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania,North Aegean ?, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, 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].
Ареал вида — Европа, умеренная Азия. Отсутствует Lycaena tityrus в Финляндии, Скандинавии и на юге Испании. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

В Центральной Испании — подвид bleusei Obth. В Альпах — subalpinus Speyer. [85].

General info about Imago

Места лёта — луга, поля, просеки. [85].

Imago lifespan

Апрель—май, июль—август. В южной части ареал может давать третье поколение. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Rumex. [28].
Щавель. [85].

Larva lifespan

Гусеницы чернопятнистой многоглазки живут с июня по июль и с осени до апреля следующего года. [85].

Subspecies of Lycaena tityrus

Lycaena tityrus subalpinus (Speyer, 1851). [10]
L. t. tityrus (Poda, 1761). [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Igor Sakhno.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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