Minois dryas (Scopoli, 1763)

Distribution

• Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
• Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey ( European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
• Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur,Middle-Volga, Average Okhotsk, Mid-Ural, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].
• The dryad is found in Spain and France, in Central and Eastern Europe, in temperate Asia, in the east-all the way to Japan, but everywhere locally, absent, for example, in southern Spain and Italy, in Greece, on the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, in Great Britain and in northern Europe. In the Alps it reaches 1500 m [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• The length of the forewing can reach 3 cm. The butterfly is easily distinguished by its characteristic blue eyes in a black outline, in Central Europe there are no strongly similar species. [85].

General info about Imago

• It flies over peaty-swampy and swampy meadows, along swampy meadows, and is rare everywhere (Reichholf-Rim, 2002). On dry uchatskas, on clearings and forest edges (Moukha, 1979).The dryad's flight is slow and heavy, the butterfly flies low above the ground and does not move very far from its initial habitat. [85].

Imago lifespan

• Adults of Minois dryas are active from July to August. [85].

General info about Larva

• The body of the caterpillar is yellow-gray, striped. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Gramineae. [28].
• Злаки: молиния, мятлик, костер, овсяница, райграс, ежа. [85].

Larva lifespan

• Caterpillar: September-June. [85].

Pupa

• The pupa is brown and develops within 4 weeks. [85].

Egg

• The eggs are not attached to the food plant. At the beginning of the development cycle, they are yellow, then brownish, and before leaving the caterpillars turn gray. The egg stage lasts 34 days. [85].

Overwintering stage

• The caterpillar overwinters in dryads, after the second molt. [85].

All the photos of the species in large size

Please, create an account or log in to upload your photo

Minois aurata (Oberthür, 1909)

Minois nagasawae (Matsumura)

Minois paupera (Alphéraky, 1888)