Erebia ottomana

Erebia ottomana is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Greece, Bulgaria, Balkans, Alps, Asia Minor) that belongs to the browns family.

Erebia ottomana
Erebia ottomana in Seitz 37 i
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Erebia
Species:
E. ottomana
Binomial name
Erebia ottomana

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

ottomana H.-Schaff. (37 i) is the largest of all the tyndarus forms.Besides the 2 subapical ocelli the band of the forewing has further back 2 additional small ocelli which are either feebly centred with white or are quite blind. Hindwing beneath uniformly grey. From the Balcan Peninsula, Greece and Armenia, being lately often sold as balcanica .[2]

gollark: What?
gollark: I may use https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic for purposes.
gollark: Exciting.
gollark: The best I can do is just not setting cookies except for preference cookies with a very clear format, probably adding a "do not harvest this data" option, and opensourcing it (although of course I can run stuff different to the publicly viewable copy, for evil).
gollark: Well, I can't guarantee it, but also I can arbitrarily harvest basically any data anyway so trust me.

See also

References
  1. Herrich-Schäffer, [1847] Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, zugleich als Text, Revision und Supplement zu J. Hübner's Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.