Coenonympha arcania (Linnaeus, 1761)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Coenonymphini → genus Coenonympha → species Coenonympha arcania

Species name(s)

Coenonympha arcania (Linnaeus, 1761) = Papilio arcania Linnaeus, 1761 = Papilio amyntas Poda, 1761 = caucasica Jachontov, 1914 = Coenonympha heroides Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha infraparvocellata Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha lecerfi De Lesse 1949 = Coenonympha lineigera Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha lundbladi Bryk 1946 = Coenonympha addenda Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha anticaeca Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha biocellata Pionneau 1932 = Coenonympha cephalidarwiniana Verity 1953 = Coenonympha confluens Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha crassolimbo Verity 1953 = Coenonympha diaphana Schawerda 1942 = Coenonympha luxurians Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha marmorata Caruel 1944 = Coenonympha mattiaca Metz 1928 = Philea orientalis Rebel, 1904 = Coenonympha pallida Revon 1939 = Coenonympha rufobrunnea Warnecke 1942 = Coenonympha secunda Verity 1953 = Coenonympha venata Lempke 1957 = Coenonympha baltica Goltz 1932. [9, 10, 187]

Pearly Heath.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 12.

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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

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 			

Detailed information with references

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, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, 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, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky, Middle Urals, South Ural. [3].
Of the European countries, it is absent only in England and Ireland, as well as on some islands of the Mediterranean Sea. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The upper part of the forewing is rusty yellow, with a dark brown border, the rear wing is black-brown. On the underside of the forewing, in front of its apex, there is a small eye with a white core. [85].

General info about Imago

Habitats — forest clearings, meadows, sparsely wooded areas, and clearings. [85].

Imago lifespan

Years — from May to September in one or two generations (from June to July-Lapmert, 2003). [85].

General info about Larva

The larva is green, without hairs, with a dark green dorsal stripe. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].
Различные виды перловника. [85].

Larva lifespan

The arcania caterpillar lives from summer to May of the following year. [85].

Pupa

Pupa "Reddish with white". [85].

Subspecies of Coenonympha arcania

Coenonympha arcania baqueroensis Bustillo, 1973. [187]
C. a. momos Fruhstorfer, 1910. [187]
C. a. salomonis Bustillo, 1973. [187]
C. a. satyrionides Stauder, 1928. [187]
C. a. skypetarum Rebel & Zerny, 1932. [187]

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