LEPIDOPTERA

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

  • NYMPHALIS Kluk, 1802

    
    

    • Nymphalis vau album ([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775)

Nymphalis vau album ([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775)

•TYPE LOCALITY. «Umgebung von Wien» [Vienna, Austria].

•SYNONYM: l-album (Esper, [1780]).

• RANGE. From E. Europe in the west to China. Korea and Japan in the east, also North America.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. Geographical variability little, related to migrato­ry activity. The European part, the Carpathian Mts., the Caucasus Major, the Altais, the Dzhungarsky Alatau Mts., W. and S. Siberia, Transbaikalia as well as the Amur and Ussuri regions are all populated by the nominotypical subspecies. In the Sakhalin and Kurile islands, the ssp. samurai Fruhstorfer, 1907 is known to occur. The specimens met with in the N. Tian-Shan, the Ghissar-Alai and the Pamirs-Darvaz very probably represent migrants. In the southern part of the geographical range, a second generation with a very light UNS is known.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Deciduous forest. Flight period: April to September, in one generation, in the south sometimes partly in two generations. Host plants: Ulmus, Betula, Populus, etc. Active migrant. Hibernation imaginal.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Nymphalis xanthomelas, N. polychloros: wing outside smooth.

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