Coenonympha corinna

Coenonympha corinna, the Corsican heath, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae

For the plant with the same English name, see Erica terminalis.

Corsican heath
Female upperside left, underside right from Adalbert Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Coenonympha
Species:
C. corinna
Binomial name
Coenonympha corinna
(Hübner, 1804)

It is found on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, and Giannutri.

Description in Seitz

C. corinna Hbn. (= norax Bon.) (48 f). The smallest Coenonympha. Upperside briUiant yellowish red with broad black apex on all the wings; on the forewing the black colour extends as a submarginalstripe as far as the inner angle. On the underside the hindwing is uniformly yellowish red with a small apical ocellus; the hindwing has a darker basal area, and in the lighter marginal portion bears small ocelli of a very diverse development. — elbana Stgr., from the island of Elba, has the apical ocellus of the upperside without pupil and the ocelli of the underside of the hindwing are larger. In Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, locally very plentiful, in May and June and again from July onward. — Larva light green with a pale-bordered dark dorsal line and a dark shaded yellowish side-line. On Carex gynomane and Triticum cespitosum. Pupa reddish grey with white smears and markings.[1]

The larva feeds on grasses.

References
  1. Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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