Lycaena violacea

Lycaena violacea is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic (Altai Mountains, Sayan Mountains, Transbaikalia, Mongolia, North China ) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Lycaena violacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Lycaena
Species:
L. violacea
Binomial name
Lycaena violacea
(Staudinger, 1892) [1]

Description

Upperside with deeper red ground colour than Lycaena splendens (Staudinger, 1881) and Lycaena dabrerai Bálint, 1996. Upperside forewing postdiscal markings are well developed, underside forewing black spots are ringed white. Hindwing upperside, the ground colour is fuscous violet. The ground colour of the hindwing underside is brownish grey. The male genital valvae are larger than in L. splendens and L. dabrerai and lack a ventral extension.[2]

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

[C. splendens Stgr. (76 g, h) now Lycaena splendens (Staudinger, 1881) In this magnificent, very intensely glossy golden butterfly the upperside is very similar in the sexes. The wings are golden red, dusted with black at the base, the forewing being traversed by one row of submarginal dots and the hindwing by tuw. The underside is similar to that of dispar rutilus, the ground-colour of the hindwing being yellowish grey. From Central Asia.] — Specimens with the hindwing beneath dark bluish grey and the upperside slightly glossy violet are violaceus Stgr., from East Asia (Amurland, Mongolia).[3]

Biology

The larva on feeds on Rheum rhabarbarum

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See also

References
  1. Staudinger, 1892 Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 5 (2) : 300-393
  2. Bozano, G.C.; Weidenhoffer, Z. Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Lycaenidae 1: Subfamily Lycaeninae Omnes Artes, Milan ISBN 9788887989014
  3. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)


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