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Lasiommata Westwood, 1841

Lasiommata Westwood, 1841; in Humphreys & Westwood, Brit. Butt. Transformations [ed. 1]: 65, TS: Papilio megera Linnaeus
Amecera Butler, 1867; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 19: 162, TS: Papilio megera Linnaeus
Lasiommata [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata (Lethina) ; [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata (Parargina) ; [AfrL]

Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)

N.Africa, W.Europe, CEU, SEU, Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, Iran. See [About maps] Ruostepapurikko Wall Brown Svingelgräsfjäril Tegelfjäril Mauerfuchs Le Satyre Saltacercas Osadnik megera
Papilio megera Linnaeus, 1767; Syst. Nat. (Edn 12) 1 (2): 771, TL: Austira, Denmark
Lasiommata megera [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata megera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Lasiommata megera [NORLEP]
Lasiommata megera [Mario Maier]
Lasiommata megera [Simon Coombes]
Lasiommata megera ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 7, f. 8]; [BRU, 187]
Pararge megera ; [Otakar Kudrna]

500x390 (~60Kb) upperside Wembury, Devon, UK 07/07/93, Photo © Simon Coombes	600x680 (~57Kb) underside France, Sophia Antipolis, 4.10.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	600x760 (~71Kb) upperside France, Sophia Antipolis, 5.10.2000, Photo © Markku Savela
800x604 (~170Kb) underside male female Italy, Ravenna, 11 May 2006, Photo © Maurizio Elia	1200x900 (~226Kb) underside Italy, Ravenna, August 2002, Photo © Maurizio Elia

Larva on Festuca, Poa [SPRK], Bromus, Deschampsia, Dactylis, Brachypodium, (etc.) Hesselbarth et al., 1995, [BRU, Nekrutenko, 1990] Dactylis glomerata, Poa annua [BMAT]

L. m. megera

Pararge megera depulverata Fruhstorfer, 1909; Int. ent. Zs. 3 (24): 134, TL: Philippeville [Skikda] (Algeria)
Pararge megera var. pseudoadrasta Stauder, 1922; Z. Wiss. InsektBiol. 17: 173, pl. 3, f. 1, TL: (Yugoslavia), El Kantara, Dj. Aures (Algeria)
Pararge megera infrapallens Verity, 1922; Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 34: 211, TL: Meknes, Foum Kheneg (Morocco), Mascara (Algeria)
Pararge megera vividissima Verity, 1923; Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 35: 25, TL: S.Spain, N.Africa
Pararge megera pallidedepulverata Verity, 1923; Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 35: 28, TL: [N.]Africa,Spain
Lasiommata megera megera ; [BMAT: 89, pl. 30, f. 1-6]

vividissima

600x435 (~67Kb) upperside Morocco, Djebel Azourki, Haut Atlas, Photo © Jean Delacre

?L. m. megerina (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)

Transcaucasia

L. m. transcaspica (Staudinger, 1901)

Turkmenia

Lasiommata paramegaera (Hübner, 1824)

Sardinia, Corsica. See [About maps] tigelius (Bonelli, 1826)
Pararge paramegaera ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Lasiommata maera (Linnaeus, 1758)

EU, NAF, Urals, SW.Siberia, Asia Minor, Syria, Iran, C.Asia, Himalayas. See [About maps] Tummapapurikko Large Wall Brown Vitgräsfjäril Murfjäril Rispenfalter Le Nemusian (m) & l'Ariane (f) Pedregosa Osadnik kostrzewiec
Papilio maera Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 473, TL: Sweden
hiera (Fabricius, 1777)
monotonia Schilde, 1885²; Ent. Nachr. 11 (9): 137
Pararge maera silymbria Fruhstorfer, 1909; Int. ent. Zs. 3 (24): 134, TL: Dalmatia, Spalato [Split]
Lasiommata maera [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata maera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Lasiommata maera [NORLEP]
Lasiommata maera [Mario Maier]
Lasiommata maera [Simon Coombes]
silymbria ; Abadjiev, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 27
Lasiommata maera ; [BRU, 187]; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 7, f. 10]
Pararge maera ; [Otakar Kudrna]

600x442 (~24Kb) FINLAND: Kb: Tuupovaara, 694:69, 8.7.1996, Photo © Markku Savela	600x733 (~53Kb) upperside FINLAND: Kb: Kiihtelysvaara, 692:68, 11.7.1997, Photo © Markku Savela	800x600 (~56Kb) upperside female Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 30.6.2003(?), Photo © Leif Wahlberg
745x679 (~101Kb) underside female Russia, Moscow area, 13.7.2008, Photo © D. Smirnov	486x705 (~95Kb)

Larva on Festuca, F. pratensis? [SPRK], Poa, Dactylis, Glyceria, Hordeum [BRU, Eckstein, 1913, Nekrutenko, 1990, Hesselbarth et al., 1995]

L. m. maera

Pararge maera atabyris Fruhstorfer, 1909; Int. ent. Zs. 3 (24): 133, TL: Rhodos, Greece
atabyris ; Abadjiev, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 26

L. m. adrasta (Hübner, [1823-1824])

SWEU, Morocco (Rif, Middle Atlas), Algeria (Kabylie) Papilio maera adrasta Hübner, [1823-1824]; Samml. eur. Schmett. [1] : pl. 169, f. 836-839, TL: S.Europe
Pararge maera var. nevadensis Oberthür, 1909; Étud. Lépid. Comp. 3 : 371, TL: Spain
maera f. adrasta ;
Lasiommata maera adrasta ; [BMAT: 89, pl. 30, f. 7-10]

450x349 (~35Kb) upperside Mt. Canigou, Pyrenees Orientales, France 27/7/96, Photo © Simon Coombes

Larva on (in Spain) Poa annua, Lolium sp., Festuca sp., Hordeum, (in Europe) Glyceria fluitans [BMAT]

L. m. crimaea (A. Bang-Haas, 1907)

Crimea

L. m. jachontovi Sheljuzhko, 1937

Caucasus Major strandi Sheljuzhko, 1937

L. m. abastumana Sheljuzhko, 1937

Caucasus Minor gracilis Sheljuzhko, 1937

L. m. orientalis Rühl, [1894]

Armenian Highland, Talysh armeniaca Sheljuzhko, 1937
karsiana Sheljuzhko, 1937

?L. m. ordona Fruhstorfer, 1909²

forest-steppe zone of Siberia maera ordona Fruhstorfer, 1909²; Int. ent. Zs. 3 (24): 133

362x357 (~31Kb) upperside female A field/birch forest edge, Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 26th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

883x600 (~85Kb) underside A forb meadow with birch groves on the interfluve between the Shadrikha and Zyryanka Rivulets at the village Lozhok at Akademgorodok [Novosibirsk Academy Town], Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

453x400 (~50Kb) underside A forb meadow with birch groves on the interfluve between the Shadrikha and Zyryanka Rivulets at the village Lozhok at Akademgorodok [Novosibirsk Academy Town], Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Lasiommata meadewaldoi (Rothschild, 1917)

Morocco (Toubkal Massif). See [About maps] Pararge maera meadewaldoi Rothschild, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24 (1): 112, TL: Tizi Gourzá (Morocco)
Pararge maera alluaudi Oberthür, 1922; : 81, pl. 545, f. 4591 (repl. meadewaldoi), TL: Reraya valley (Morocco)
Lasiommata meadewaldoi [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata meadewaldoi ; [BMAT: 90, pl. 30, f. 11-15]

600x435 (~22Kb) Morocco, Djebel Angour (3500 m), Haut Atlas, Photo © Michel Tarrier

600x435 (~22Kb) underside Morocco, Djebel Angour (3500 m), Haut Atlas, Photo © Michel Tarrier

Lasiommata adrastoides (Bienert, [1870])

SE.Transcaucasia, N.Iran. See [About maps] adrastoides (Bienert, [1870]); Lepid. Erg. Reise Persiens: 30, TL: "Siaret", Iran
Lasiommata adrastoides ; [BRU, 188]

Larva on Festuca [BRU, Nekrutenko, 1990]

Lasiommata felix (Warnecke, 1929)

Arabia. See [About maps] felix (Warnecke, 1929); Int. ent. Z. 22: 365
Pararge felix ; [BOW: pl. 204, f. 7]
Lasiommata felix ; [AfrL]

Lasiommata maderakal (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)

Ethiopia, N.Somaliland. See [About maps] Satyrus maderakal Guérin-Méneville, 1849; Voyage en Abyssinie 6: 381, pl. 10, f. 1-3
Lasiommata maderakal ; [BOW: pl. 116, f. 10]; [AfrL]

Lasiommata schakra (Kollar, [1844])

Himalayas - Kashmir, Chitral - Kumaon. See [About maps] Common Wall
Satyrus schakra Kollar, [1844]; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek, 4 (2): 446, pl. 15, f. 3-4
Pararge schakra ; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 7]
?shakra ; (spell.?)

Lasiommata maerula C. & R. Felder, [1867]²

NW.Himalayas, Kashmir. See [About maps] maerula C. & R. Felder, [1867]²; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (3): 496

Lasiommata majuscula (Leech, [1892])

W.China. See [About maps] majuscula (Leech, [1892]); Butts China Japan Corea (1): 67
Lasiommata majuscula ; [MRS, 359]
Pararge majuscula ; Huang, 2001

Lasiommata minuscula (Oberthür, 1923)

W.China. See [About maps] minuscula (Oberthür, 1923); Etud. Lépid. Comp., 20:200
Lasiommata minuscula ; [MRS, 359]

Lasiommata kasumi Yoshino, 1995

Shaanxi. See [About maps] Lasiommata kasumi Yoshino, 1995; Neo Lepidoptera 1: 3, f. 17-20, TL: Mt. Taipai, Shaanxi

Lasiommata hindukushica (Wyatt & Omoto, 1966)

Afghanistan. See [About maps] Pararge hindukushica Wyatt & Omoto, 1966; Entomops 6: 173
?Pararge kindukushica ; (spell?)

Lasiommata menava Moore, 1865

Asia Minor - Transcaucasia - Baluchistan - Chitral, Kashmir. See [About maps] Dark Wall
Lasiommata menava Moore, 1865; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2) : 499, pl. 30, f. 3, TL: NW.Himalaya
Lasiommata menava [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata menava ; [BRU, 188]
?Pararge menava ; [BOW: pl. 171, f. 11]

L. m. nasshreddini Christoph, 1877

Transcaucasia, Kopet-Dagh

Lasiommata petropolitana (Fabricius, 1787)

EU, Temperate Asia, Mongolia, NE.China, Amur. See [About maps] Metsäpapurikko Northern Wall Brown Berggräsfjäril Klippfjäril Osadnik petropolitana
Papilio petropolitana Fabricius, 1787; Mantissa Insectorum, 2: 36
Papilio hiera Fabricius, 1777; (nom. nudum.)
Lasiommata petropolitana [Wahlberg]
Lasiommata petropolitana [Kimmo Silvonen]
Lasiommata petropolitana [NORLEP]
Lasiommata petropolitana [Mario Maier]
Lasiommata petropolitana [Simon Coombes]
Lasiommata petropolitana ; [BRU, 189]
Pararge petropolitana ; [Otakar Kudrna]

500x503 (~48Kb) upperside Finland, Pihtipudas, Liitonjärvi, 703:44, 30.6.1996, Photo © Tero Piirainen	327x300 (~25Kb) upperside male female A pine forest, Akademgorodok [Academy Town]), Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 12th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	700x700 (~168Kb) upperside male A pine forest, Akademgorodok [Academy Town]), Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 12th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
600x698 (~54Kb) female FINLAND, Ab: Suomusjärvi, 669:31, 28.5.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	800x624 (~49Kb) FINLAND, Ab: Suomusjärvi, 669:31, 28.5.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	500x499 (~28Kb) upperside FINLAND: Ab: Suomusjärvi, 669:31, 21.6.1996, Photo © Markku Savela
500x340 (~26Kb) underside FINLAND: Ab: Suomusjärvi, 669:31, 21.6.1996, Photo © Markku Savela	402x579 (~65Kb)

Larva on Gramineae, Phalaris arundinacea, Calamagrostis purpurea, Roegneria canina [SPRK]

L. p. ominata (Krulikovsky, 1903)

NEU, Urals, W.Siberia petropolitana ominata (Krulikovsky, 1903); Rev. Russ. Ent. 3: 30

L. p. sestia (Fruhstorfer, 1908)

Altai petropolitana sestia (Fruhstorfer, 1908); Ins.-Börse 25[?]: 95 [? not in Fruhstorfer lit.]

L. p. falcidia (Fruhstorfer, 1908)

Transbaikalia, Far East, Amur petropolitana falcidia (Fruhstorfer, 1908); Ins.-Börse 25[?]: 95 [? not in Fruhstorfer lit.]

Lasiommata hefengana Chou & Zhang, 1994

Xinjiang. See [About maps] Lasiommata hefengana Chou & Zhang, 1994; in Chou, Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium 1-2: 757, 359, f. 25, TL: Hefeng, Xinjiang

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[AfrL]

Mark C. Williams; Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); e-mail: Mark C. Williams

[BMAT]

Tennent, John, 1996; The butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; ISBN 0 906802 05 9

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[BRU]

Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae; Volume 1

[D. Smirnov]

Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[HBN]

Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2

[Jean Delacre]

http://homepage.mac.com/jdelacre

[Kimmo Silvonen]

Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site

[LAMAS-2005]

Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)

[Leif Wahlberg]

Julita, Sweden; e-mail: Leif Wahlberg

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Mario Maier]

Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier

[Maurizio Elia]

Ravenna, Italy; e-mail: Maurizio Elia

[Michel Tarrier]

Michel R. Tarrier; Malaga, Spain; http://www.tarrier.org

[NHM]

Natural History Museum; The Global Lepidoptera Names Index

[NORLEP]

Norges Sommerfugler

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[SPRK]

Seppänen, E. J, 1970; Suomen suurperhostoukkien ravintokasvit, Animalia Fennica 14

[Simon Coombes]

1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

[Tero Piirainen]

Tampere, Finland; e-mail: Tero Piirainen

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

[²]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Abadjiev, 2002

Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 3-53

Bienert, [1870]

Lepidopterologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Persien in den Jahren 1858 und 1859. Inauguraldissertation Lepid. Erg. Reise Persiens: 56pp

C. & R. Felder, [1867]

Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (1): 1-136, pl. 1-21 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (2): 137-378, pl. 22-47 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1865) (3): 379-536, pl. 48-74 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1867) (4): 537-548, pl. 75-120, (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-9 (pl. 1-74), (Rhop./Het.) (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) (5): pl. 121-140, (erklärung) 1-10 (pl. 75-107), (Inhalts-Vers.) 1-20 (pl. 108-140), (Het.) (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Fruhstorfer, 1909

Neue Satyriden Int. ent. Zs. 3 (23): 130-131 (4 September) (24): 133-135 (11 September)

Hübner, [1823-1824]

Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. I. Papiliones - Falter ("Erste Band") Samml. eur. Schmett. [1] : 3-74 pl. 1-88, f. 1-446 (1799-1800) pl. 89-96, f. 447-490 (1800-1803) pl. 97-114, f. 491-588 (1803-1804) pl. 115-119, f. 589-612 (1805) pl. 120-124, f. 613-636 (1805-1806) pl. 125-128, f. 637-652 (1806-1808) pl. 129-144, f. 653-727 (1808-1813) pl. 145-147, f. 728-741 (1814-1816) pl. 148-150, f. 742-756 (1816-1817) pl. 151, f. 757-762 (1818-1819) pl. 152-154, f. 757-774 (1819-1822) pl. 155, f. 775-778 (1822-1823) pl. 156-161, f. 779-806 (1823) pl. 162-175, f. 807-874 (1823-1824) pl. 176, f. 869-874 (1824-1825) pl. 177-181, f. 875-895 (1825-1826) (Geyer) pl. 182-187, f. 896-981 (1827-1828) pl. 188-195, f. 922-968 (1828-1832) pl. 196, f. 969-974 (1832-1833) pl. 197-201, f. 975-997 (1834-1836) pl. 202-203, f. 998-1009 (1836-1838) pl. 204-207, f. 1010-1029 (1837-1838)

Leech, [1892]

Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea Butts China Japan Corea (1): 1-297, pl. 1-28 (1892-1894) (2): 297-681, pl. 29-43 (1893-1894)

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338 339-824

Linnaeus, 1767

Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, .... Editio Duocecima Reformata. Tom. 1. Part II. Syst. Nat. (Edn 12) 1 (2): -,533-1327

Moore, 1865

List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2) : 486-509, pl. 30-31

Oberthür, 1909

Notes pour servir à établir la Faune Francaise et Algeriénne des Lépidoptères Étud. Lépid. Comp. 3 : 101-400, 405-415, pl. 11,16-20,23-26

Rothschild, 1917

Supplemental notes to Mr. Charles Oberthür's Faune des Lépidoptères de la Barbarie, with lists of the specimens contained in the Tring Museum Novit. Zool. 24 (1): 61-120 : 325-373 393-409

Schilde, 1885

Beiträge und Unterhaltungen zur Schmetterlingskunde Ent. Nachr. 10 (22): 333-346 (1884) 11 (9): 133-137 (1885)

Wyatt & Omoto, 1966

New Lepidoptera from Afghanistan Entomops 5: 138-167 6: 170-200

Yoshino, 1995

New Butterflies from China Neo Lepidoptera 1: 1-4, 2pls

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Keep in mind that the taxonomic information is copied from various sources, and may include many inaccuracies. Expert help is welcome.