Speckled Wood (butterfly)
Speckled Wood ( Pararge aegeria Tircis )
This Speckled Wood ( Pararge aegeria ) 's a butterfly ( butterfly ) the subfamily of moth eyes ( Satyrinae ) from the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ).
- 3.1 Flight times and caterpillars
- 3.2 food of the caterpillars
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
Features
The moths reach a wingspan from 32 to 45 millimeters. They have brown to dark brown wings with little light yellowish edged, black and white cored eye patch. At the front wing is located near the top of such a spot, which is flanked by several binding arranged like white spots. On the hind wings, sit three to four eye spots next to each other. The outer edge of all the wing is thin, broken white colored. The underside of the forewing is brown with numerous white spots and the same ocellus as on the top. On the underside of the hind wings dark brown, strongly washed and cored bright spots are visible instead of the eye patch. The basic color of the hind wings undersides is slightly mottled ocher and brown, the outer edge of a violet shimmer is drawn. On the hind wings there are also two thin, dark brown, wavy binding.
The caterpillars are about 27 millimeters in size. Your body is yellowish green and has a white- edged, dark green back strip. On the sides, they have light and dark lines. The tail fork is whitish, bluish green head.
Similar Species
- Brown eye ( Lasiommata maera )
- Wall Brown ( Lasiommata megera )
- Madeira Forest board game ( Pararge xiphia )
- Canary Speckled Wood ( Pararge xiphioides )
Subspecies
- Pararge aegeria Tircis, distribution: France, British Isles, Switzerland, Fennoscandia, the Baltic States.
- Pararge aegeria aegeria, distribution: To be found in the south in Greece and the European part of Turkey.
Occurrence
The moths are found in Central Europe and North Africa to a height of 1,200 meters, in Central Europe the subspecies P. aegeria Tircis occurs while P. aegeria aegeria represents the southern variant. They live in lowland forests, mixed deciduous forests and dry forests, rare in coniferous forests. This bright, warm hardwood sawmill rich forests are preferred.
Way of life
The male moths show a conspicuous territorial behavior. They sit on elevated positions from which they can observe the surroundings well, and try flying past rivals to market. You can always go back to her seat. Forest games rarely fly flowers on, mostly they suck tree sap and ripe fruit, but also in puddles.
Flight times and caterpillars
The moths fly in two generations from mid-April to early June and from July to mid-September. The caterpillars are found from September until April of next year and in June.
Food of the caterpillars
Among the food plants of the caterpillars include various grasses such as forest - sedge ( Carex sylvatica), giant fescue ( Festuca gigantea ), grove bluegrass ( Poa nemoralis ), Woolly honey grass ( Holcus lanatus ), oat grass ( Arrhenatherum elatius ) pinna - Zwenke ( Brachypodium pinnatum ), purple moor grass ( Molinia caerulea) and sand reed grass ( Calamagrostis epigeios ). According to Ebert, the list of grasses is long, but no focal points have so far been found.
Development
The females lay their eggs singly on the stems of forage crops. After about 10 days the caterpillars hatch. The young animals are diurnal, but later they eat at night. In the summer they need about 4 weeks for their development. Hibernation takes place either as a bead or a doll. Pararge aegeria is the only butterfly that also occurs in the middle of closed forest, provided a small, sunlit place exists.