Thread subject: Diptera.info :: butterfly...maybe Hipparchia
Posted by Matteo86photonature on 18-08-2008 16:12
#1
HI,
I found this butterfly near seaside in Liguria (Italy) this month. So hot and sunny wheater and burned plants where I found it.
Maybe some one know the right name of the specie? (thought it's an Hipparchia sp.)
thank you
Posted by cosmln on 18-08-2008 16:29
#2
I will say a male of
Hipparchia statilinus.
cosmln
Edited by cosmln on 18-08-2008 16:46
Posted by Matteo86photonature on 18-08-2008 19:32
#3
thank you very much!
one curiosity (I'm not an expert, so sorry for this answer):
could it be an Hipparchia fagi ?
I say it looking the more similar texture of the posterior wings in one my book, but maybe it have diffewrent "yellow eye" on the wings and size is major
(hard looking just a pic, i know :D )
thank you again
Edited by Matteo86photonature on 18-08-2008 19:46
Posted by Isidro on 19-08-2008 00:16
#4
No!!! It's very, very clearly H. statilinus. H. fagi is mistakable with H. alcyone, but never with H. statilinus, very different!
Posted by Isidro on 19-08-2008 00:17
#5
No!!! It's H. statilinus, or maybe an unknown species not present in my country, but not H. fagi. The H. fagi is mistakable with H. alcyone, but never with H. statilinus, very different!
Posted by Matteo86photonature on 19-08-2008 13:22
#6
Really thank you for the precisation :)
greetings, Matteo