Vanessa carye
Vanessa carye is a South American butterfly ( butterfly ) of the genus Vanessa in the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ). In Central and North America it is replaced by the sister species and the Vikariant Vanessa annabella.
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- 5.2 Notes and references
- 5.3 Notes
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Features
Butterfly
The butterflies look very similar to the Painted Lady. The tips of the forewings are but angled, colored black bear and several large and small orange instead of white spots. Only directly at the apex are a few small white spots. The root field and the inner half of the wing has a orange and black spotted drawing. The wing root is colored yellow-brown. The hind wings are yellow-brown at the base and also have an extensive, the drawing of the front wings resembling pattern, the black spots are colored but only as of the wing outer edge, the other spots are pale. In the Postdiskalregion are five approximately equal-sized, mostly blue cored, black spots. The underside of the hind wing is white and mottled in various shades of brown and bears on the outer edge five different sized ocelli. The underside of the forewing as colored top, but much paler. At the leading edge of two large bright spots are visible next to it. The black of the wing tips is partly mixed with shades of brown and the wing base down can be colored orange red in direction.
Preimaginal stages
The caterpillar is blackish with small thorns and bright points.
Similar Species
- Vanessa annabella: Vanessa annabella a tan line right after the cell on the forewing upper side and the marginal line on the bottom are a little smaller. The line under the vein Cu2 on the front upper wing surface is very small or absent, which is very well pronounced in V. carye. A white spot in the center of the rear lower wing surface at the end of the cell is in the shape of an hourglass instead of a triangle.
- American Painted Lady ( Vanessa virginiensis ): from the four dark spots in the Submarginalregion the hind wings are the two outer significantly greater than the two inner and usually cored blue.
- Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ): the ground color of the wings is yellow-brown, the large, bright costal spot at the apex is white and the dark spots in the Submarginalregion the hind wings are rarely cored blue.
Geographical distribution and habitat
Vanessa carye comes from the mountains of Colombia in South America and west of Caracas ( Venezuela) about Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, southern Brazil and Paraguay to Patagonia in Argentina and on Easter Island and the Tuamotu archipelago. It is thus allopatric spread to her Vikariant Vanessa annabella, which occurs north from Guatemala.
In temperate regions Vanessa lives carye also in the lowlands, or in the mountains. It is widely used in fields located in Argentina and Patagonia Vanessa carye is often the only common species
Way of life
The caterpillars feed on Achyrocline flaccida (Asteraceae ), sometimes it comes to outbreaks, in which cannibalize the then very numerous caterpillars. Mass flights are known from Argentina. The mating behavior is identical to that of Admiral (Vanessa atalanta ).
System
The kind that carye 1812 by Jacob Hübner as Hamadryas was first described without specifying a type locality, which includes today's V. annabella and V. carye. William Dewitt Field examined in the 1950s Falter from different localities in North and South America, and found little difference in the drawing and the genitals. He could be checked by an illustration of Hübner, that he had described a butterfly from South America and published in 1971 Field work, in which he described the previously considered as subspecies North American population as a new species Cynthia annabella. The species status was initially quite controversial [Note 1], but could also be confirmed through a genetic test.