Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779)

Имаго (Satyrium ilicis)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Theclinae → tribe Eumaeini → genus Satyrium → species Satyrium ilicis

Species name(s)

Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779) = Nordmannia ilicis (Esper, [1779]) = Papilio ilicis Esper, 1779 = Papilio lynceus Fabricius, 1787 = Thecla caudatula Zeller, 1847 = Thecla bischoffii Gerhard, 1853 = cilicica (Holtz, 1897) = Thecla ilicis syra Pfeiffer, 1932 = prinoptas (Zerny, 1932) = Fixenia ilicis. [3, 9]

Ilex Hairstreak.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Forewing length

16—18 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

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.

Самка (Satyrium ilicis)

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Nordmannia ilicis. [3].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania,North Aegean, Sicily, 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 Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].
Habitat: west, south and center of Europe. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length is 1.8 cm. The underside with orange spots and a white band. [5].

General info about Imago

Places volley: sparse shrubs with oaks. [5].

Imago lifespan

Satyrium ilicis flies in one generation - from late June to early August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Quercus, indifferent to the caterpillars ants Camponotus aethiops, Crematogaster. [28].
Oak leaves. [5].

Larva lifespan

Caterpillar meets in May and June. [5].

Overwintering stage

Winters caterpillar eggs in the shell. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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