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Argynnis paphia
Silver-washed Fritillary
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 1019 1088 (2019-10-17)Copyright © 2019 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jul 31, 2019
latitude 46.35846 longitude 13.70444
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location
Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, right bank of river Soča near Matevž farm house, Trenta 1, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)family
Nymphalinae
order
Lepidoptera
class Insecta
notes Slo.: gospica - syn.: Argynnis immaculata Bellier, Papilio valesina Esper, Argynnis anargyra Staudinge - Habitat: River bank, in a narrow band of forest, Salix eleagnos, Picea abies, Fagus sylvatica, Fraxinus ornus, Ostrya carpinifolia dominant trees; locally almost flat terrain, calcareous bedrock, partly sunny and humid place; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevation 535 m (1.755 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Comment: The Argynnis paphia is one of Slovenian largest and most beautiful butterflies. Male and female are slightly different, but easy to be distinguished. The male is usually more colorful and has 4 prominent horizontal blackish streaks on its forewings. These are androconial scales, from which pheromones are released during the courtship flight. After hatching the young caterpillars first eat their egg-shells, then become very picky in their food. They eat almost exclusively dog violets Viola riviniana. It is interesting that the female butterflies do not deposit their eggs directly on this plant, so vital for their offspring, but mostly in bark crevices of older trees. However, the parents choose the trees, which grow near Viola riviniana. The youngsters must look for the food by themselves. How they are able to find this particular kind of violets remain secret. - Ref.: (1) https://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Britain%20-%20Argynnis%20paphia.htm (accessed Oct. 17. 2019) (2) Fauna Europas, Bestimmungslexikon, George Westermann Velag, Brounschweig (1997), translated to Slovenian, Mladinaka Knjiga, Ljubljana (1981), pp xx (3) http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Argynnis_Paphia (accessed Oct. 17. 2019)camera Sony ILCE6000 / Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar E 16-70 mm/f4
contributor's ID # Bot_1236/2019_DSC09401 photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Insect
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Silver-washed Fritillary (photographer)
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