LEPIDOPTERA

• N Y M P H A L I D A E Swainson, 1827

  • LIMENITIS Fabricius, 1807

    
    

    • Limenitis reducta Staudinger, 1901

Limenitis reducta Staudinger, 1901

•TYPE LOCALITY. «Arm.[enia] or.[ientalis]; Hyrc.[ania]». The lectotype has been designated by Wagener (Hesselbarth et al., 1995): «Hankynda (= Stepanakert, Nagorny Karabakh)» [Armenia].

•SYNONYMS: drLisilla (Bergstrasser, 1779), nom. praeoccup.; lucilla (Esper, [1779]), nom. praeoccup.; Camilla ([Denis et Shiffermuller], 1775), nom. praeoccup.; anony-ma Lewis. 1872; mirzafani Gross et Ebert, 1975.

•RANGE. S. Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Iran, Kopet-Dagh.

•DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The nominotypical subspecies inhabits the Armenian Plateau and both Talysh and Kopet-Dagh mountains. In the S. European part and the Caucasus Major and Minor, the ssp. herculeana Stichel, [1908] (== prodriga Fruhstorfer, 1909; = schiffermulleri Higgins, 1933) is known to occur.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Open landscapes among deciduous or mixed forests up to 2,000 m a.s.l. Flight period: May to July. Host plants in the Caucasus: Lonicera iberica and Lonicera orientalis (Dantchenko, in press). Instar 3 larvae hibernating in shelters built of rolled funnel-shaped leaves.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Limenitis Camilla: with two rows of black submarginal spots on UNH.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 2. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 2000