Erebia tyndarus (Esper, 1781)

Имаго (Erebia tyndarus)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Erebiini → genus Erebia → species Erebia tyndarus

Species name(s)

Erebia tyndarus (Esper, 1781) = Papilio tyndarus Esper, 1781 = Erebia bulgarica Drenowski 1930 = Erebia buronica Hospital 1948 = Erebia dentata Stetter-Stättermayer 1933 = Erebia dolomitana Goltz 1930 = Erebia dolomitensis Warren 1936 = Erebia exannulata Warren 1936 = Erebia hippocoon Niesiotowski 1937 = Erebia infradiffusa Verity 1953 = Erebia minuspunctata Stetter-Stättermayer 1933 = Erebia nevadensis Haigh-Thomas 1929 = Erebia ochrea Sheljuzhko 1937 = Erebia punctata Pinneau 1936 = Erebia retyezatica Dioszeghy 1930 = Erebia simulata Warren 1933 = Erebia transsylvaniensis Warren 1932. [9, 10, 187]

Swiss Brassy Ringlet.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland. [1].
Albania, Austria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].
Range: Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians. Caucasus, Southern Siberia. Iran, Mongolia. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The black-brown wings are greenish on top, the rust-brown sash is wider than usual, but there is no sash at all on the hind wings. On the tops of the forewings — two eyes, usually with white cores. The underside of the wings of both sexes bears eyes corresponding to the upper part of the wings, the color of the underside of the forewings is brown-red in the male and lighter, rusty-red in the female. Underside of the hindwings of Erebia tyndarus with three serrated transverse bands and white pollen on a reddish-gray background. [85].

General info about Imago

Very fond of sunny grassy cliffs. [85].

Imago lifespan

Summer time: July-August. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Erebia tyndarus

Erebia tyndarus banacensis Dannehl, 1933. [187]
E. t. benacensis Warren, 1933. [187]
E. t. bureschi Esper, 1777. [187]
E. t. calcarius Lorkovic, 1953. [187]
E. t. campestris Warren, 1955. [187]
E. t. cavallus Lorkovic & De Lasse, 1960. [187]
E. t. durmitorensis Warren, 1932. [187]
E. t. illyromacedonica Lorkovic, 1953. [187]
E. t. maritima Testout, 1946. [187]
E. t. pseudocarmenta De Lesse, 1956. [187]
E. t. pseudomurina De Lesse, 1956. [187]
E. t. savalanica De Lesse, 1956. [187]
E. t. semimurina Warren, 1936. [187]
E. t. sheljuzhkoi Warren, 1935. [187]
E. t. tardenota Praviel, 1941. [187]
E. t. von Mentzer, 1961. [187]
E. t. von Mentzer, 1958. [187]
E. t. warreniana De Lesse, 1957. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Mario Maier.

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
[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