- Source: Argynnis laodice
Argynnis laodice, Pallas' fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It occurs in damp forested places in southern Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, northwestern Kazakhstan, and across the Palearctic to Siberia, Amur, Korea and Japan.
Description
laodice Pall. (= cethosia Hbn.) (70a). Bright leather-yellow, the female with minute white spots before the apex of the forewing. Central and distal areas with very regular rows of round black dots. Underside without silver, a row of elongate white spots with an oily gloss separates on the hindwing the yellow proximal area which has a greenish gloss, from the distal area, which is dusted with pinkish violet.
Biology
Larvae feed on species of Viola. The species produces one generation annually and flies in July–August.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar kupu-kupu Jepang
- Argynnis laodice
- Argynnis
- List of Lepidoptera of Poland
- List of fritillaries (butterflies)
- List of Lepidoptera of Latvia
- List of Lepidoptera of Ukraine
- List of Lepidoptera of Lithuania
- List of Lepidoptera of Denmark
- List of butterflies of Sweden
- List of Lepidoptera of Slovakia
