British Insects: Butterflies
British Insects: Butterflies | |
Adults. The fringes conspicuously light-and-dark banded. Antennae reaching noticeably less than halfway to the wingtips.
Wing venation. Forewings with basally dilated veins.
Eggs, larvae, pupae. The larvae without bristly spines.
British representation. 1 species. Arethusana arethusa (False Grayling). The adults abroad August.
Status in Britain. Rare ocurrence representing occasional, genuine immigrants, or adventive (? - a mainland-European species recorded in Surrey in 1974).
Distribution. Southeast England.
Classification. Superfamily Papilionoidea. Satyridae.
Illustrations. • Arethusana arethusa (False Grayling): Hübner, 1805. • Arethusana arethusa (False Grayling: Hübner).
To view illustrations with legends giving names in current use, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa, as well as source references and other relevant material.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. British insects: butterflies. Version: 29th December 2011. http://delta-intkey.com’.
