Lycaena (Heodes) tityrus (Poda, 1761) |
Austria, Graz
Male above black-brown, with a magnificent metallic green gloss when alive, with black spots corresponding to those of the underside and with a very thin reddish lunate line before the margin of the hindwing. Female above similar to Lycaena (Lycaena) phlaeas, but paler yellow, and with a very thin black edge instead of a broad black marginal band. Beneath yellowish grey, with very numerous black ocelli and small russet-red spots before the margin. Throughout Europe, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, with the exception of Great Britain; also in Asia Minor. Habitat
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28 - 30 mm |
![]() | A little butterfly which can be find in the fields and others little places in which there are many flowers. This butterfly flies very fast. |
![]() | A tiny egg, quite grey. It looks like an sponge or a golf ball. |
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Synonyms and other combinations | |
Heodes tityrus | Poda, 1761 |
Heodes dorilis | Hufnagel, 1766 |
Known subspecies | ||
Species | Author | Locus typicus |
Lycaena (Heodes) tityrus subalpinus | Speyer, 1851 | |
Lycaena (Heodes) tityrus tityrus | Poda, 1761 |
Lycaena (Heodes) tityrus is a member of the clade Lycaena virgaureae | |
Species | Author |
Lycaena (Heodes) bleusei | Oberthür, 1884 |
Lycaena (Heodes) ottomanus | (Lefèbvre, 1830) |
Lycaena (Heodes) tityrus | (Poda, 1761) |
Lycaena (Heodes) virgaureae | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Lycaena (Thersamolycaena) alciphron | (Rottemburg, 1775) |