Bild folgtKI-generierte IllustrationEuphydryas aurinia
Euphydryas aurinia
Family: NymphalidaeGenus: Euphydryasheimisch in Deutschland
heimisch in Deutschland
native_regions-Cache · 85 %
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49
Plants
visited
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53
Interactions
documented
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8
Host plants
known
About this species
A univoltine butterfly with larval overwintering and oligophagous caterpillars.
Ecological network
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Plant-based food
Annual cycle
The life cycle is univoltine. Larvae overwinter and then resume feeding in the following spring, pupating and emerging as adults to complete the single annual generation.
Merkmale
Körper
Wingspan
3.475 cm
Ernährung & Verhalten
Food
oligophagous
Generationen/Jahr
univoltine
Overwintering
larva
Scientific profile
Euphydryas aurinia is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is univoltine, producing a single generation each year, and overwinters in the larval stage. The caterpillars are oligophagous, feeding on a restricted range of host plants. The species has been recorded in Great Britain.
Host plants
8 plants serve as food for the larvae
Plantago subulataSuccisa pratensisKnautia arvensisScabiosa columbariaValeriana dioicaLonicera periclymenumCentaurea scabiosaDipsacus fullonum
Visited plants
41 plants are visited by this species
Lophiolepis eriophoraHippocrepis comosaGenista tinctoriaRanunculus acris subsp. friesianusCirsium arvenseHelianthemum nummulariumStachys officinalisPolygala vulgarisCentaurea nigra subsp. nigraScabiosa columbaria subsp. pratensisThymus serpyllumPotentilla erecta subsp. erectaCardamine pratensisLotus corniculatus subsp. hirsutusPilosella officinarumVicia craccaCirsium acauleThymus pulegioidesRanunculus repensCirsium palustreAjuga reptansCirsium heterophyllumRanunculus aquatilisCentaurea cyanusRanunculus linguaCirsium vulgare subsp. vulgareCentaurea scabiosaSilene flos-cuculiRanunculus bulbosus subsp. bulbosusRanunculus flammulaCirsium tuberosumFicaria vernaCirsium dissectumThymus praecoxdactylorhiza maculataPlantago lanceolataJasione montanaCalendula arvensisGlobularia bisnagaricaEuphorbia cyparissiasGentiana clusii subsp. clusii
Sources & Data Origin
•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•Cook et al. (2025) UK Butterfly & Moth Traits (DOI: 10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66)
•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
•Seifert & Fiedler (2023) — Macroecological patterns in European butterflies unveil strong interrelations between larval diet breadth, latitudinal range size, and voltinism [Dataset]. Dryad, DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9zw3r22mp (CC0)
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