Hello lovely Hiveans !
Today I want to publish another Insect and a little description on it into the Insects Of The World Community that is actually dedicated to all posts about insects and their charackterisation and interesting descibrions and facts ^^ .. In this post I choose to present to you the European Peacock (Aglais Io), a beautiful local butterfly with a nice tortoiseshell pattern that cought my eyes directly.
Scientific Classification of Aglais Io:
The Agalis Io belongs to the order of Lepioptera (All Butterflies and Moths), and within this order to the Family of Nymphalidae. Within this largest family of butterflies it is assigned to the genus of the Aglais, which contains all the beautiful species with a tortoiseshell pattern on it [1]. As you saw on the pictures is has tese beautiful tortoiseshell pattern in his eyespots ^^
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Lepidoptera - "Butterflies and Moths"
- Family: Nymphalidae - "Largest Family of Butterflies"
- Genus: Aglais - "Tortoiseshell Patterns"
- Species: Aglais io
Distribution of the Butterfly:
The Aglais Io is native to the whole northern parts of Europe and Asia. Thus, the species that I present here is a local one. This species can be even found up to an altitude of 2500 m, so out Hiveans from the alp region is Central Europe or the Skandinavian Moutain ranges are able to find them too on their mountain hikes. Their favorite biotopes are widely open forests, as well as open parks and gardens [2].
The Aglais Io favors open forests, as well as open parks and gardens.
- Places of spread: - Northern parts of Europe and Asia, up to an altitude of 2500 m
Common Appearance:
The Aglais Io has a usual wingspan between 50 and 55 millimeters [1]. This reported size fits really nice to the size of the specimen's wings that I found and photographed. Thereby, the base colour of the wings features an intense rusty red tone, combined with some black and creamy white accent colors. I really like the eyespots on this species a lot. The white to yellowish basis colour of the spots stands in a nice contrast with the rest of the wings. But this is not all. The eyespots itself feature another admirable contrast, as in the middle of the dots there are some reddish and black pupils with a nice bluish tortoiseshell touch. Especially this tortoiseshell pattern makes the eyesots even more attractive, and they also come very close to the imitation of real eyes ^^ The outer edge of both pairs of wings is held in a grayish brown colour. A similar, but more brownish colour tone is seen for the whole body, including the head, thorax and abdomen of the species.
The wings features an intense rusty red tone, combined with black and creamy white accent colors.
The eyespots have a white to yellowish basis colour and reddish and black pupils with a nice bluish tortoiseshell touch.
The outer edge of the wings is grayish brown. The whole body is held in a similar, but more brownish colour tone.
- Size: - Wingspan of 50 to 55 mm
- Head, Thorax & Abdomen: - Brownish
- Wings: - Rusty red base colour with distinctive black, blue and yellow eyespot
Date and Location of the Discovery
The Aglais Io Butterfly was found on 10th October 2021 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Thank You Very Much !
Thank you very much for taking the time to read about my finding ^^ .. I also like to thank the Insects Of The World Community moderators @lourdeshd6 and @nicanor-mosquera for their excellent work and effort in curation all the time. You are a big pillar in making this community a wonderful one for all the Insect-Lovers out there ;)
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All pictures were taken by myself, ©@adalger, with a Xiaomi Redmi Mobile Phone. For information gathering I mainly used some articles about the Aglais Io on Wikipedia [1][2].
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Very beautiful butterfly. The color of the wings is amazing. Butterflies always have beautiful and different wing colors.
Yes they have 😉 and there are so many beautiful variants of them to be found out there 🦋
That's right sir. Butterflies are absolutely amazing.
Identity of butterflies in regions is becoming critical to know movement and numbers. I have seen a few places where collection of data is greatly appreciated. This is one more for collection for the blockchain, thanks @adalger always in nature!
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Thanks @janstewart ^^ .. I always try my best to foster these as good as possible .. The DNA library is also one approach and luckily a really successful one so far with approximately 15 entries per month 😍
Once I find my feet will post more regularly I hope, life has been a bit of a 'pressure cooker' lately!
Haha, I know this so good ^^ .. hiving sometimes comes in phases ;)
Life appears to keep us away from what we enjoy most....
Anyone who cannot appreciate the beauty, uniquness and magic of butterflies is not a friend of mine!
The European peacock butterfly is a true beauty!🦋
I love their fearlessness and of course their fake eyeballs that dissuade predators.
Excellent photography! @adalger
Oh yest, it really is .. when I saw him first from further away, I just thought that it is a monarch and got really surprised that it was this one here .. it looks so beautiful 😍 .. butterflies are probably one of the most majestic insects to find out there 🦋
Thank k you very much for appreciating my humble post @ewkaw 🤗
You're very welcome :)
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What a beautiful butterfly! Thank you for sharing.