Chernushka embla

Embla ( Scandinavian mythology ) - Ask and Embla - “ash” and “willow”, the first people to be found on the seashore and revived by the gods, still in the form of tree prototypes, lifeless and “deprived of fate”.

Fore wing length 20–26 mm. The wings are brown. On the front wings in the external field there are large (at least 2 mm), round black spots, which have two sighted eyes below the wings. The apex has the largest spot (bottom is a double eye), two more below, they are all in yellow touching rims. The hind wings also have eyes (2–5), but they are noticeably smaller, between the veins, their rims do not touch. Bottom of the hind wings, the basal half of the wing is framed by light spots of different sizes.

The tundra, forest-tundra and forest zones of Eurasia, to the south lives in the mountains of Asia to the south to Mongolia , China and North Korea , and in the north of Sakhalin ^[1] . It is an ordinary butterfly for Kamchatka , but does not penetrate north of the Koryak Upland and the Omsukchan Mountains ^[4] .

It is found in grasslands and grass tundra , in larch woodlands in the valleys of northern rivers, in swampy and sparse pine and larch forests, and sphagnum bogs ^[1] .

Butterflies fly from mid-June to the second half of July. Butterflies feed on the flowers of the common white , weekly European , highlander viviparous ^[1] .

Ellipse-shaped eggs with many longitudinal ribs, first pale yellow, later in red-brown spots. Stacked one at the bottom of the stem.

The first-aged caterpillar is cream, with a brown stripe along the back and three narrower lines along the side. On each segment, 8-10 black warts with black hair. Head buffy in brown dots and hairs. The adult caterpillar is ocherous in sparse brown hairs, with a wide greenish-brown stripe along the back and a brown side line. Winters caterpillar or pupa . Feed plants - cereals and sedges .

The species is protected in the Leningrad region ^[5] , the Altai Republic ^[6] .