Argynnis niobe (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго (Argynnis niobe)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Heliconiinae → tribe Argynnini → genus Argynnis → subgenus Fabriciana → species Argynnis niobe

Species name(s)

Argynnis (Fabriciana) niobe (Linnaeus, 1758) = Fabriciana niobe = Papilio niobe Linnaeus, 1758 = herse (Hüfnagel, 1766) = pelopia (Borkhausen, 1788) = Papilio cleodoxa Esper, 1789. [9, 10, 85]

Niobe Fritillary.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

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August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

January

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December

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Fabriciana niobe. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia,Romania, Sicily, 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, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Mid-Volzhsky,Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Range: all of Europe, Asia Minor. It is absent in Britain, Corsica, Sardinia and Crete. In the east, the range reaches Iran. In the Alps A. niobe can rise to heights of 25-50 m [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Externally, niobe is similar to adippa, the difference lies in the lighter color of the wings and the more rounded shape of the tips of the front wings in niobe. But the adippa has a more pronounced chain of holes, and the mother — of-pearl spots on the underside of the hind wings are larger. For females f. obscura Spul. it is characterized by a darker color, and representatives of f. eris Meig. and they do without mother-of-pearl spots on the lower surface of the hind wings, which are replaced here by light yellow or yellow-brown spots. In the latter case, the similarity is again seen with the red pearl moth (Argynnis adippe), in which the form cleodoxa Ochs is known. also devoid of mother-of-pearl spots. [85].

General info about Imago

Habitat: shrubby forest-steppe, forest edges. [85].

Imago lifespan

Summer time: June to August. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Viola. [28].
Фиалки. [85].

Larva lifespan

After leaving the egg in early spring, the caterpillar waits for pupation from March to May. [85].

Pupa

The pupal stage is around four weeks old. [85].

Overwintering stage

Hibernates according to various observations-an egg or still a caterpillar. [85].

Subspecies of Argynnis niobe

Fabriciana niobe alpiumlaranda Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. alpiumlata Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. alpiumsisenna Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. alpiumstricta Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. altapyrenaea Verity, 1933. [187]
A. n. altonevadensis Reisser, 1927. [187]
A. n. ancyrensis Rebel, 1933. [187]
A. n. apenninica Verity, 1914. [187]
A. n. auresiana Turati, 1909. [187]
A. n. austriaca Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. cebennica Verity, 1929. [187]
A. n. changaica Reuss, 1922. [9]
A. n. chinensis Belter, 1931. [187]
A. n. cleodaxa Esper, 1785. [187]
A. n. cloppenburgi Reuss, 1921. [187]
A. n. cornuta Reuss, 1922. [187]
A. n. demavendis Gross & Ebert, 1975. [9]
A. n. diocletiana Stauder, 1911. [187]
A. n. elisa Godart, 1823. [187]
A. n. erisoides Pictet, 1930. [187]
A. n. erispallida Collier, 1933. [187]
A. n. gigantea Staudinger, 1871. [9]
A. n. infraargentea Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. infragrisea Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. infrapallida Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. infrapupillata Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. intermedia Reuss, 1925. [9]
A. n. jainadeva Moore, 1864. [187]
A. n. khusestana Gross & Ebert, 1975. [9]
A. n. kuhlmanni Seitz, 1908. [187]
A. n. kurana Wyatt & Omoto, 1966. [9]
A. n. laranda Fruhstorfer, 1910. [187]
A. n. meridionalis Schawerda, 1916. [187]
A. n. nigropunctata Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. niobe. [9]
A. n. orientalis (Alphéraky, 1881). [9]
A. n. ornata Staudinger, 1901. [9]
A. n. ovalis Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. philistra Seitz, 1908. [187]
A. n. pinguis Verity, 1919. [187]
A. n. pyrenaea Verity, 1933. [187]
A. n. rubida Verity, 1914. [187]
A. n. sequanica Varin, 1945. [187]
A. n. shiva Wyatt & Omoto, 1966. [9]
A. n. sicula Ragonot, 1920. [187]
A. n. sisenna Fruhstorfer, 1910. [187]
A. n. steckei Vogt, 1921. [187]
A. n. superlata Gaillard, 1928/29. [187]
A. n. taura Röber, 1896. [187]
A. n. tekkensis Christoph, 1893. [9]
A. n. transversa Lempke, 1956. [187]
A. n. valesinoides Reuss, 1926. [9]
A. n. voraxides Reuss, 1921. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Simon Coombes, Evgeny Komarov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org