Lasiommata petropolitana
Brown eye check
The brown eye or check the little brown eye ( Lasiommata petropolitana ) is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ).
- 3.1 Flight time
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of about 35 millimeters. You can see the brown eye ( Lasiommata maera ) are very similar, but are much smaller. Your description is almost identical: you 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 box near 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 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 differences to exist in a brown eye extending to the hind wings, dark brown horizontal stripes, is missing the Brown eye. The orange color of the brown eye check is partly not as pronounced which can better come to the fore wings validity to the dark lines. This feature is not suitable for distinguishing.
Similar Species
- Brown eye ( Lasiommata maera )
- Wall Brown ( Lasiommata megera )
Dissemination
The animals are found in parts of northern Europe, in the Alps and parts of Eastern Europe and Siberia to the Amur at high altitudes. They live at an altitude 500-2250 meters, in the north of Europe 100-1200 meters. They are found in rocky, sandy or rocky hillsides and forest edges and clearings.
Way of life
One finds the moths often rest on open positions on the ground or on tree trunks. They sleep on steep rocky slopes and embankments or on tree trunks or their roots.
Flight time
The animals fly each year in one generation from late April to early August. In deep layers, there is the possibility of a second generation.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on Genuine sheep fescue ( Festuca ovina ), Country reed grass ( Calamagrostis epigeios ) and the ordinary orchard grass ( Dactylis glomerata ).