Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782) = Strymonidia w-album = Thecla w-album = Nordmannia w-album (Knoch, 1782) = Papilio w-album Knoch, 1782 = majuscula (Jachontov, 1911) = Fixenia w-album. [3, 9, 10, 85]

White-letter Hairstreak.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

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; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

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Larva lifespan

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Strymonidia w-album; Thecla w-album. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania , Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, 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, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Average -Amursky, Mid-Volzhsky,South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
Satyrium w-album встречается от Западной Европы, включая южную часть Англии, до Японии, летая при этом на Кавказе, в Крыму и Западном Казахстане. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

«W-album» — в честь зигзагообразной белой перевязи, расположенной на исподе задних крыльев. Верх крыльев темно-коричневой окраски, а на задних крыльях имеются хвостики. [85].

General info about Imago

Местообитания: лесные дороги, кустарники по опушкам лиственных и смешанных лесов. Летает поодиночке. [85].

Imago lifespan

С июня по август. [85].

General info about Larva

Гусеница зеленая, со светло-коричневой головой. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ulmus. [28].
Ильм. [85].

Larva lifespan

С мая по июнь. [85].

Pupa

Куколка вязовой хвостатки серо-бурая, стадия куколки продолжается 14 до 22 суток. [85].

Egg

Зимует яйцо. [85].

Subspecies of Satyrium w-album

Satyrium w-album fentoni (Butler, [1882]). [9]
S. w. sutchani Tutt, 1907. [9]
S. w. w-album. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Yuriy Karpov, Irina Nikulina.

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