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Brenthis ino (Rottemburg, 1775)
Brenthis ino (Rottemburg, 1775)

• TYPE LOCALITY. «Umgebung Berlin, Landsberg an derWarthe» [Germany].

• SYNONYMS. dictynna ([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775); parthenie (Bergstrasser, 1780); Kavomaculatus (Retzius, 1783).

• RANGE. The entire temperate belt of the Palaearctic Region.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. A highly variable species, with a lot of subtaxa described. Some of these require a revision. The pattern of geographical variability seems to display a gradual dine, with the following subspecies distinguishable: ssp. ino (Rottemburg, 1775) (= tergesta (Fruhstorfer, 1910); = zinalensis (Bryk, 1911); = ciscauccisica Obraztsov, 1936) - European part, Caucasus Major; ssp. schmitzi Wagener, 1983 - Caucasus Minor, Armenian Highland, Talysh; ssp. trachalus (Fruhstorfer, 1916)-Tian-Shan; ssp. cichasis (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (= limpida (Krulikovsky, 1909); = clara (Staudinger, 1892), nom. praeoccup.) -Transbaikalia; ssp. acrita (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (= discolus (Fruhstorfer, 1907); = borealis (Seitz, [1909]), nom. praeoccup.; = vitimensis Wnukowsky, 1929) - central Siberia; ssp. adalberti (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (= sibirica (Seitz, [1909], nom. praeoccup.) - Sayan Mts.; ssp. paidicus (Fruhstorfer, 1907) - Altais; ssp. siopelus (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (= herzi (Seitz, [1909]); = magadanica (Kurentzov, 1970)) - Far East; ssp. arnurensis (Staudinger, 1887) - Amur region; ssp. maxima (Staudinger, 1887) (= tarnis (Fruhstorfer, 1916)) - Ussuri region; ssp. paruimarginalis Nakahara, 1926 (= karaftitonis Matsumura, 1925, nom. praeoccup.) - Sakhalin; ssp. tigroides (Fruhstorfer, 1907) - Kuriles; • HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Common on the outskirts of woods, in parks, flood plain grasslands in the forest and forest-steppe belts, and over mountain meadows up to 2,500 m a. s.l. Flight period: June to August. Eggs laid solitarily, one by one. on leaves of the host plant. Host plant in the Ussuri region (Dantchenko & Nikolaevsky, in press): Filipendula palmata; in Europe (Eckstein, 1913 and others): Filipendula ulmaria, F. vulgaris, Rubus idaeus, R. chamaemorus, Aruncus parvulus, Sanguisorbci officinalis. In Siberia, larvae occurring on Filipendula ulmaria only (Korshunov, 1996). Hibernation larval.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Brenthis daphne: larger; UNH with intensive violet dust; black submarginal spots on UNH undeveloped. B. hecate: ground colour of UNH whitish, black marking contrasting.

 

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