Aricia morronensis, the Spanish argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Spain and Hautes-Pyrénées (France).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Aricia |
| Species: | A. morronensis
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| Aricia morronensis | |
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The wingspan is 22–26 mm.[3] Adults are on wing from June to September in usually one, but sometimes two generations per year.[4]
The larvae feed on the leaves of Erodium species.[5] They are attended by ants. The species overwinters in the larval stage.
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Description from Seitz
editL. idas Rbr. (79 k). Above black-brown with dark median spot on the forewing, the fringes pale, only slightly darkened at the tips of the veins. Underside coffee-brown, with feeble reddish tinge, the ocelli being similarly arranged as in astrarche; the hindwing with pale longitudinal streak from the centre of the wing to the middle of the outer margin, the streak being generally much more prominent than in our figure. — In the Sierra Nevada, at 1000 ft., in July.[6]
Subspecies
edit- Aricia morronensis morronensis present in Andalusia (South Spain) and South Albacete and Murcia.
- Aricia morronensis hersselbarthi (Manley, 1970) in Abejar (Soria, Spain)
- Aricia morronensis ramburi (Verity, 1913) present in Sierra Nevada
- Aricia morronensis boudrani (Leraut, 1999) present at the Col du Tourmalet and the Cirque de Gavarnie des Hautes-Pyrénées.
References
edit- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Aricia morronensis at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ^ Astur Natura
- ^ Dagvlinders van Europa
- ^ "butterfly-guide.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ^ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
- Gil-T., F. (2009): Concerning Aricia morronensis in the south and south-east of Spain: new localities, a revision of its sub-specific status, and a proposal of synonymy (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 193-199, 331. Full article: [1].
- Shaw, M. & F. Gil-T. (2008): The first known parasitoid of Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910), an endemic Iberian species, and notes on the parasitoids (Hymenoptera; Diptera) of the genus Aricia in Europe (Lep.: Lycaenidae; Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Ichneumonidae; Diptera: Tachinidae). Atalanta 39 (1/4): 343-346, 423. Full article: [2].