Coenonympha vaucheri

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Coenonympha vaucheri
(MHNT) Coenonympha vaucheri - Tizi-n-Tamda, Maroc - male.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Coenonympha
Species:
C. vaucheri
Binomial name
Coenonympha vaucheri
Blachier, 1905 [1]

Coenonympha vaucheri, or Vaucher's heath, is a butterfly that belongs to the family Nymphalidae and is endemic to Morocco. [2]

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Description

The top side of the butterfly is ochre-yellow with a deep black distal edge with the forewing bearing a huge apical ocellus without a pupil. This gives the butterfly the appearance of having large eyes to ward off predators. It's hindwing has between 4 or 5 black spots lined up in a straight row. Underneath the wings the apical ocellus is pupiled, these may increase in number (ab. geminipuncta Blach). The baseof the hindwing is a blackish olive-colour with a white highlight, the end portion of the wing is a dirty white colour and has six equally large pupiled ocelli.

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References

  1. Blachier, 1905 Lépidoptères du Maroc - Remarque sur diverses espèces et descriptions de variétés nouvelles Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 77 (2) : 209-222
  2. "Coenonympha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms