Lopinga achine
Yellow butterfly ring ( Lopinga achine ), lower wing
The yellow ring butterfly ( Lopinga achine ) is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ).
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 50 to 55 millimeters. They have gray-brown wing tops with big, black, thin, yellow -rimmed spots near the wing margins.
Dissemination
They come in Europe, Russia, in the north of Central Asia and in Japan only locally and sporadically before. They live in small clearings with bushes and hedges along forest edges. They are found both on wet and on dry soils that can not be basic or alkaline. They are showing their populations in many places falling; It is a stenöke butterfly species of deciduous forests with a specific grass understory that is rarely found, but occasionally the lives of climatically favorable sites also coniferous forest edges.
Flight time
The animals fly in one generation from early June to late July.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of pinna - Zwenke ( Brachypodium pinnatum ) and forest - Zwenke ( Brachypodium sylvaticum ).