Lasiommata petropolitana

Lasiommata petropolitana
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lasiommata
Species: L. petropolitana
Binomial name
Lasiommata petropolitana
Linnaeus, 1767

Lasiommata petropolitana, the northern wall brown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae.[1] It can be found in large parts of Europe, from the Pyrenees and Alps up to Scandinavia and Finland, east to Russia and Siberia.

The males are 19–21 mm. The butterflies fly in one or two generations from April to September.

The larvae feed on various grasses, mainly Dactylis glomerata, Festuca rubra and Festuca ovina.

References

  1. "Lasiommata Westwood, 1841" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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