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Iberian Marbled White; Medioluto Ibérica

Melanargia lachesis

Photo by arlanda
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Feale. The male has the anverse white with black drawings. The female is bigger with the hindwing reverse yellowish. The cell in the forewing is white with pointed form. Hindwings are white with black spots shaped as arrows at the edge, around not very visible ocela. The reverse of the hindwing is whitish with variable ocela with bluish pupils. The imagos visit the flowers of brambles and thistles. The caterpillars are green or bluff with longitudinal streaks white and dark

Habitat:

Spotted at backyard garden on Lavandula angustifolia. Sierra de Guadarrama, El Espinar

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D500. Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.; f/5.6; ISO Speed Rating: 1000. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 300.0 mm. DSC_7324

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