Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 maturna

Species name(s)

Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758) = Papilio maturna Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio agrotera Bergtrasser, 1780 = Hypodryas maturna. [9, 10]

Scarce Fritillary.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

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; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky.

Forewing length

21—24 mm.

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 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy North-Ural,Middle-Volga, Urals Average, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Maturna found in France, Central Europe, Northern Germany and Hungary, and in Russia - from the European part of the country to the Maritime Provinces. [5].
Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length 2.1-2.4 cm. [5].

General info about Imago

Places volley - wet valleys and deciduous-mixed forest. The habitats of butterflies attached to the plantations of ash. [5].

Imago lifespan

From late May to early July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Betula, Salix, Fraxinus, Ligustrum vulgare, Scabiosa, Lonicera, Plantago, Digitalis. [28].
Euphydryas maturna Caterpillars feed on ash autumn and spring nizkotrave. [5].

Larva lifespan

From July to May, hibernates. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Euphydryas maturna

Hypodryas maturna adamczewskii Krzywicki, 1967. [187]
E. m. aestia Bois-Reymond, 1931. [187]
E. m. coreanica Murayama, 1955. [187]
E. m. macedonica Dufay, 1977. [187]
E. m. maturna. [9]
E. m. staudingeri Wnukowsky, 1929. [187]
E. m. staudingeri (Wnukowsky, 1929). [9]
E. m. urbanoides Warnecke, 1942. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexsandr Martukov, Vladimir Bryukhov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC1149] Alexander Belousov

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22.02.2014 15:45, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Species included in the red list of the IUCN.
In the Red Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) species has 3 categories of protection (VU - vulnerable taxon, threatened or endangered in the long term, due to morphological and physiological and / or behavioral characteristics that make them vulnerable to any, even minor, changes in the environment) .Included in the "Red Data Book of European butterflies day" categories SPEC3 - species found in Europe and beyond, but in the territory of the European endangered.
Included in the Red Book of Belarus (2004) (Category 3), the Moscow region of Russia (1998) (2). Also, the form is protected in Finland, Slovakia and Hungary.Added as a comment because I believe that this information might be useful.