Coenonympha gardetta
Species of butterfly
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Coenonympha gardetta, the Alpine heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be in alpine meadows on heights of 800 to 2,900 from the Massif Central to Albania.
| Coenonympha gardetta | |
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| Male, Val da Fain, Switzerland | |
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| Male, Wengen, Switzerland | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Coenonympha |
| Species: | C. gardetta |
| Binomial name | |
| Coenonympha gardetta | |
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The length of the forewings is 15–16 mm. Seitz treated it as a subspecies of C. arcana -satyrion Esp. (48 d); a mountain form from the Carpathian Mts., which differs greatly from the nymotype: on the upperside the male is mouse-grey and the female brownish-grey, almost unicolorous; on the underside the white distal band is of even width and bears the very regular row of distinct ocelli exactly in its centre; from about 4000–7000 feet.[1]
Adults are on wing from June to September. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on various grasses.
