Erebia cyclopius

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Erebia cyclopius
Erebia cyclopius male - Novogordeevka.jpg
E. cyclopius male underside - Anuchinsky District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species:
E. cyclopius
Binomial name
Erebia cyclopius
(Eversmann, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Erebia cyclopia

Erebia cyclopius is a species of butterfly of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It is found through Siberia (from the Urals to the Far East), northern Mongolia, northern China and North Korea. [1] The habitat consists of forest edges, flowery meadows and sparse larch forests.

Contents

The wingspan is 46–62 mm.

Description in Seitz

E. cyclopius Ev. (35 c). Upperside grey-brown. The forewing has on both surfaces a subapical, nearly circular, black ocellus with 2 white pupils and ochre-yellow border. The underside of the forewing is somewhat lighter than above and the yellow border of the eye-spot is much wider, the apex of the wing being feebly dusted with bluish grey. The hindwing beneath at the base likewise dusted with bluish grey for a considerable distance; a submarginal band bluish ashy grey, in some places interrupted by the ground-colour. The ocelli of the female are larger and more broadly ringed with yellow than in the male, the apex of the wing being more densely dusted with grey-blue. Antenna ringed black and white, the club russet yellow. — In the Ural, Altai, and Kentei Mts., on the Amur and its tributaries, and on Askold; in May, June and July in damp pine-woods, locally abundant. The largest specimens occur on Askold, having an especially large subapical ocellus. [2]

Adults are on wing from June to July.

The species overwinters in the larval stage. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Eiffinger, G. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Russian Insects