Lasiommata maera

Male brown eye ( Lasiommata maera )

The brown eye ( Lasiommata maera ) is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ).

Features

The moths reach a wingspan from 37 to 50 millimeters. The moths are slightly larger than the wall Fuchs ( Lasiommata megera ) and have on top of the wing, a gray-brown staining. On the front wings, a large part is colored orange-brown, with a dark brown mop separates this field. Found in this orange field in the vicinity of the wing tip, a mostly double white cored, black spot, whose environment is somewhat lighter colored orange. On the hind wings there are three to four also nucleated white, black spots, but they are much smaller. Only closely around them, the hind wings are colored orange. The most outward-facing spot is orange in the first place and has in the center a tiny spot cored. The underside of the fore wings are just like the Wall Brown colored. They are orange-brown and also have a double white cored, black eye patch. On the light brown gray hind wings are located in the cells 1c - 6 brown ocelli with white edges and cores black and white.

The caterpillars are about 28 mm long. They are colored blue and green on the back have a slightly darker colored line on both sides has a white border. On pages can also be found on each side two bright longitudinal lines.

Similar Species

• Brown eye check ( Lasiommata petropolitana )
• Wall Brown ( Lasiommata megera )

Dissemination

The animals arrive in North Africa, most of Europe except parts of the North, to the West of Siberia. In Africa, they live up to 2,800 meters above sea level, otherwise depending on the region to 2,000 meters. You are not rare in the uplands and the Alps and arrive almost anywhere before. In the plane they are rare and strong in retreat. They inhabit forest edges and clearings, nutrient-poor, rocky and dry meadows and boulder fields.

Flight time

The animals fly each year in two generations from late April to June and from June to September. In the north and in cold areas they fly only in one generation from mid- June to late August, in North Africa, there should also be a third generation.

Food of the caterpillars

The caterpillars feed on Genuine sheep fescue ( Festuca ovina ), Country reed grass ( Calamagrostis epigeios ), honey woolly grass ( Holcus lanatus ) and other Süßgrasarten.

Development

The females lay their eggs singly on withered grass. The animals pupate particularly like on overhanging cliff in an olive green to almost black, very slender doll. This was in the back behind a comb and eight white points. The animals of the second generation overwinter as a caterpillar.

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