David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
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Butterflies 66 – Large Wall Browns
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata
maera (f) form adastra
LARGE WALL
BROWN BUTTERFLY Lasiommata maera (f) form adastra
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The Large Wall Brown Butterfly Lasiommata maera
is a common and widespread butterfly throughout much of continental Europe where
it inhabits rocky terrain and woodland margins, but it is absent from the
British Isles. This absence is not related to latitude as it is present in parts
of Scandinavia, so it may be a species capable of establishing itself in Britain
in the future. The bright adastra form
females illustrated here are found in South Western Europe (including France
and Italy where these photographs were taken) and the extent of the orange
markings is reduced in Eastern European countries where there may be range overlapping
with the similar Northern Wall Brown Butterfly L. petropolitana.
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