Mother-of-pearl selenium , or mother-of-pearl common ( Latin Boloria selene ), is a butterfly from the nymphalidae family ( Nymphalidae ). One of the most common mother of pearl in North America and Eurasia .
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Description
The length of the front wing is 18-20 mm. The upper side of the wings is reddish-brown with a characteristic black pattern. The pattern can vary greatly, sometimes dark specimens with an expanded pattern of the pattern on the upper side of the wings can be found, while the brown color is preserved only along the edges of the wings. The light yellow band on the underside of the hind wings is usually with three silver spots. In front of the middle ligation is a row of black dots.
Mother of pearl selenium
△ Mother-of-pearl selenium
Distribution
Widely distributed in central and northern Europe and Asia to Korea and North America . It lives in the forest zone from the northern tundra to the southern Carpathians and further to the east the range passes through the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine and Russia. Not available in Crimea . Known from the Western Caucasus .
Butterflies inhabit forest edges, glades, swampy and moist forb meadows, roadsides, riverbanks. In the tundra zone there are meadow tundra with a variety of flowering plants, less often ernik tundra.
Biology
Depending on the area of the range, it can develop from one (in the north) to three (in the south) generations. In the north of the range, a single generation flies in July. In the middle lane, the species develops in two generations, the flight time is from mid-May to the end of June and from the 3rd decade of July to the end of August.
Females lay eggs one at a time or several at a time on the upper surface of leaves of fodder plants. Some of the first generation caterpillars develop overwinter from July to May next year. Pellets head down. Caterpillar feed plants: wild strawberries , wild strawberries , blueberries , Viola hirta , marsh violet , Rivinius violet , violets .