Sardinian meadow brown

The Sardinian meadow brown (Maniola nurag)[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae.[2] It is a small butterfly with orange and brown colouring. The butterfly is only found in Sardinia.[3] Seitz describes it thus E. nurag Ghil. (47 c). Considerably smaller than the jurtina-forms, otherwise closely allied to them. Both sexes with an ochre-yellow distal band, which in the male is sometimes reduced to an interrupted half-band of the forewing, but usually, as always in the female, continues through both the wings; the ground colour a very pale brown. The underside of the hindwing greyish brown, with a sometimes obsolete, mostly but slightly prominent median band. — In Sardinia and Corsica, in June and July, very local, apparently only flying in localities of a certain definite character which are covered with hard grasses.[4]

Sardinian meadow brown
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Maniola
Species:
M. nurag
Binomial name
Maniola nurag
Ghiliani, 1852

References
  1. "Maniola nurag: Sardinian Meadow Brown". Eurobutterflies.com. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. "Maniola Schrank, 1801" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Guide to the butterflies of Europe and North Africa. 1997
  4. 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)Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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