Spanish Marbled White Butterfly

Strong colonies can be found on warm species rich chalk and limestone grasslands but woodland rides railways cuttings and road verges are also frequented.

Spanish marbled white butterfly.

The length of the forewings is 23 25 mm. One of the most beautiful of europe s butterflies despite an almost monochrome colouring when viewed from above the spanish marbled white inhabits areas of wildflower rich unimproved grassland. Close up marco photograph of black marble butterfly on english wildflower. The spanish marbled white is more closely related to the browns than to other white butterflies as its subfamily satyrinae suggests.

As the temperature rose and the sun shone two species of marbled whites started to fly the abundant iberian marbled white and esper s marbled white. The sky was cloudy and our first butterflies were still asleep hanging in the grass. Badajoz province to the south has just five different species but a considerably lower diversity of butterflies overall just 86 species owing to the lack of montane habitats. It can be found on the iberian peninsula and western north africa.

The marbled white is a distinctive medium sized white butterfly with black chequered markings. Harpercollins london and the spanish translation updated in 2002. Adults may be found roosting halfway down tall grass stems. They were the beautiful twin spotted fritillary turquoise blue and spanish chestnut heat.

Melanargia ines spanish marbled white butterfly. Spanish marbled white melanargia ines. Adults are on the wing in the summer from june to august. Any butterfly of the satyrid genus melanargia with panelled black and white wings but.

Macro butterfly insect. Woman s marble statue and butterflies. Tarrier delacre 2008. Melanargia ines the spanish marbled white is a butterfly species belonging to the family nymphalidae.

Thetis hbn 39 e. Glowing moon and hourglass. Tolman lewington 1997. In july it flies in areas of unimproved grassland and can occur in large numbers on southern downland.

The marbled white is a distinctive and attractive black and white butterfly unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. Meaning pronunciation translations and examples. It shows a marked preference for purple flowers such as wild marjoram field scabious thistles and knapweeds. For this study we selected the spanish marbled white butterfly melanargia ines hoffmannsegg 1804 as a model species which shows a typical atlanto mediterranean distribution ranging from northern iberia to the maghreb region from morocco to tunisia and parts of libya tennent 1996.