Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Melitaeinae → tribe Melitaeini → subtribe Euphydryina → genus Euphydryas → species Euphydryas aurinia

Species name(s)

Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) = Euphydryas debilis (Oberthur, 1909) = Papilio aurinia Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio artemis Schiffermüller, 1775 = Papilio maturna Esper, 1777 = Papilio lye Bergstrasser, 1780 = Papilio koloswarensis Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 = Papilio matutina Thunberg, 1791 = Eurodryas aurinia = Euphydryas (aurinia) aurinia. [9, 10]

Marsh Fritillary, Alpine Fritillary.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 7.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.

Primary colors

Orange, 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 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and 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, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania , Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia,Romania, Northern Ireland, 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, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Tuva , South-West-Siberian,South Ural. [3].
The range of the species is from England to Korea. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Ireland: a subspecies of hibernica Birch. Scotland: scotica Robs. East Asia: lacta Christ. In general, East Asia is characterized by a greater variety of forms of this butterfly. [85].

General info about Imago

Avrinia prefers wet meadows and marshes. [85].

Imago lifespan

From May to June. In the northern part of the range and in the mountains — until July and even until August. [85].

General info about Larva

In the beginning, they live in groups in a common nest. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Scabiosa, Succisa, Knautia, Cephalaria. [28].
Gentiana, Primula viscosa. In captivity, the caterpillars do not give up and Lonicera Symphoricarpus. [28].
Скабиоза, луговой сивец, высокий подорожник. [85].

Larva lifespan

The life span of the caterpillars is from July to May of the following year. [85].

Egg

The eggs of Euphydryas aurinia are light brown, flattened on top, and spread out in heaps on the leaves of the forage plant. [85].

Overwintering stage

The caterpillar overwinters. [85].

Subspecies of Euphydryas aurinia

Eurodryas aurinia acedia Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
E. a. alfacaria Ribbe, 1910. [187]
E. a. anglicana Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
E. a. apiciata Röber, 1926. [187]
E. a. asiatica Staudinger, 1881. [187]
E. a. aurinia. [9]
E. a. aurunca Turati, 1910. [187]
E. a. balcanica Schawerda, 1908. [187]
E. a. banghaasi Seitz, 1908. [187]
E. a. banghaasi (Seitz, 1908). [9]
E. a. barraguei (Betz, 1956). [9]
E. a. basiconfluens Lempke, 1955. [187]
E. a. beckeri (Lederer, 1853). [9]
E. a. bicolor Vorbrodt, 1928. [187]
E. a. bulgarica Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
E. a. bulgarica (Fruhstorfer, 1916). [9]
E. a. castillana Oberthür, 1909. [187]
E. a. celina Krzywicki, 1967. [187]
E. a. comacina Turati, 1910. [187]
E. a. davidi Oberthür, 1881. [187]
E. a. debilis Oberthür, 1909. [187]
E. a. debilis Oberthür, 1909. [9]
E. a. discalis Bryk, 1946. [187]
E. a. dubia Krulikovski, 1890. [187]
E. a. ellisoni Rungs, 1950. [187]
E. a. emba Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
E. a. eothena Röber, 1926. [187]
E. a. estonica Petersen, 1902. [187]
E. a. glaciegenita Verity, 1928. [187]
E. a. hibernica Birchall, 1873. [187]
E. a. impunctata Vorbrodt, 1928. [187]
E. a. infraflava Verity, 1950. [187]
E. a. inframaculata Lempke, 1955. [187]
E. a. infraochrea Verity, 1950. [187]
E. a. kricheldorfi Collier, 1933. [187]
E. a. laeta Christoph, 1893. [187]
E. a. laeta (Christoph, 1893). [9]
E. a. lucana Hartig, 1968. [187]
E. a. morena Ribbe, 1910. [187]
E. a. namurcensis Lambillion, 1911. [187]
E. a. nigra Freke, 1903. [187]
E. a. nigromaculata Lempke, 1955. [187]
E. a. pellucida Christoph, 1893. [187]
E. a. praeclara Kane, 1893. [187]
E. a. provincialis Boisduval, 1840. [187]
E. a. pseudomerope Vorbrodt, 1914. [187]
E. a. rotunda Röber, 1926. [187]
E. a. sareptana Staudinger, 1861. [187]
E. a. scotica Robson, 1880. [187]
E. a. sesquiargentea Verity, 1950. [187]
E. a. sibirica Staudinger, 1861. [187]
E. a. signifera Kane, 1893. [187]
E. a. tenebricosa Bang-Haas, 1827. [187]
E. a. tiragalloi Balletano & Toso, 1976. [187]
E. a. valentini Nitsche, 1928. [187]
E. a. volhynica Ksenzhopol'sky, 1911. [187]
E. a. volupis Fruhstorfer, 1923. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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