| Lasiommata felix | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lasiommata |
| Species: | L. felix |
| Binomial name | |
| Lasiommata felix (Warnecke, 1929) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lasiommata felix, the Arabian wall brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-western Saudi Arabia and Yemen. [2] The habitat consists of the western escarpment of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae. They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies. The true number of the Satyrinae species is estimated to exceed 2,400.
The Satyrini is one of the tribes of the subfamily Satyrinae. It includes about 2200 species and is therefore the largest tribe in the subfamily which comprises 2500 species.
Lasiommata megera, the wall or wall brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is widespread in the Palearctic realm with a large variety of habitats and number of generations a year.
Lasiommata maera, the large wall brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
Lasiommata petropolitana, the northern wall brown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found in large parts of Europe, from the Pyrenees and Alps up to Scandinavia and Finland, east to Russia and Siberia.
Libythea labdaca, the African snout butterfly, is a member of the butterfly subfamily Libytheinae found in western and central Africa.
Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Some authors used to consider this taxon a subgenus of Argynnis, but it has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.
Oeneis glacialis, the Alpine Grayling, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Alps at heights of 1400 to 2900 m above sea level.
Acraea eponina, the orange acraea or small orange acraea to distinguish it from the larger A. anacreon, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in tropical Africa and south-western Arabia.
Lasiommata is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Lasiommata paramegaera, the pale wall brown or Corsican wall brown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia. The wingspan is 36–40 mm. The upper and undersides of the fore and hind wings are orange brown, they have a dark brown grid-like pattern. The females are often a little lighter colored. Near the apex of the forewing sits a white centred black eye-spot. Between this eye-spot and the outermost apical tip of the fore-wing is another very small black round spot. In the disc region of the top of the forewing, the male has a distinct scent-mark. The upperside of the hind wings has cells 1c, 2, 3, and 4 of the postdiscal region with small black, white-pupilled eye spots on. The underside of the forewings is orange-brown, the underside of the hind wings light brown. On the front wing, the underside pattern corresponds to the upperside. However, the eye spot in the apex is also surrounded by a brown ring.
Acraea encedon, the common acraea, white-barred acraea or encedon acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia. It is one of the species of Acraea sometimes separated in Telchinia.
Protogoniomorpha anacardii, the clouded mother-of-pearl, is a species of Nymphalidae butterfly found in tropical Africa, and in Arabia
Hipparchia tewfiki is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-western Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Lasiommata maderakal is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ethiopia and Somaliland.
Junonia chorimene, the golden pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, northern and western Kenya, northern Tanzania, south-western Arabia and Yemen. The habitat consists of riverine vegetation.
Precis limnoria, the white-spotted commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of savanna and thorn-bush country, especially rocky terrain.
Acraea doubledayi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
