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The insect:
Binomial name:
Cynthia cardui , Linneae – 1758 (=Vanessa cardui, Linneae – 1758)
Common names:
English : Painted lady
German : Distelfalter
Spanish : Vanessa de los cardos
ItaliAn : Vanessa del cardo
Greek :
Arab :
French : Belle-Dame, Vanesse du chardon, Vanesse des chardons
Classical Classification:
Embranchement : Arthropoda
Classe : Insecta
Super-Ordre : Endopterygota
Order : Lepidoptera
Family : Nymphalidae
Sous-famille : Nymphalinae
Genus : Cynthia
Species : Cynthia cardui
Phyllogenetic Classification:
Clade : Arthropoda
Clade : Hexapoda
Clade : Insecta
Clade : Pterygota
Clade : Neoptera
Clade : Endopterygota
Clade : Lepidoptera
Clade : Neolepidoptera
Clade : Ditrysia
Clade : Papilionoidea
Clade : Nymphalidae
Clade : Nymphalinae
Clade : Nymphalini
Genus : Vanessa
Species : Vanessa cardui
Protection status - Conservation:
This taxon is included in the national inventory of natural heritage, but is not protected
Statut de nuisibilité:
Not an invading noxious insect,.
Origin and distribution:
This butterfly is present on all continents except for South America.
Écology:
The butterfly lives preferably in grasslands, meadows and cultivated fields. Its host plants are preferred Carduus (hence its name), the malva, the lamiera and coltsfoot. It can be met on all sorts of other flowers (eg, about photography, the butterfly is resting on a flower of Knautia arvensis - scabieuse)
General features:
It is a day butterfly, thirty millimeters in length, a wingspan of four to seven centimeters. The head, lying forward, has two pairs of eyes, lateral and one pair of antennas completed in clubs. The mouthparts are classical, with a very long "tongue", as shown in the photograph. The thorax bears two pairs of wings and three pairs of legs. The wings are more developed than the hindwings. The first pair of legs is very small. The head, thorax and abdomen are provided with an abundant hair color more or less green. The tops of the wings is tawny colored with orange and black spots on wings, on front, white spots on a black background, the bottom is medium brown. The hindwings have a row of half-moon blue back and showd four ocelli. There is no sexual dimorphism. Very frequently, we can see that the wings are more or less damaged and faded color: it comes from their migratory behavior, which may lead them to travel thousands of kilometers. Note the phenomenon of mass migration periodically. This butterfly is found in almost all of Europe between March and October
Sources :
Encyclopédie de la Pleiade – Zoologie – Tome 2
http://www.tela-insecta.net/
http://inpn.mnhn.fr
http://inpn.mnhn.fr/isb/servlet/ISBServlet?action=Espece&typeAction=10&pageReturn=ficheEspeceDescription.jsp&numero_taxon=53747
http://www.tolweb.org/tree/
http://tolweb.org/Vanessa_cardui/77098
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/vanessa_cardui.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanesse_du_chardon
http://expopapillon.free.fr/Pres.shtml
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/sightings/1097/painted_lady.html
The camera:
Camera : Olympus E-30
Objectif : Zuiko macro 50mm
Aperture : f/13
Speed : 1/400
Aperture priority
Sunny day
Time : 01/06/2009 - 13h15 TU
ISO – 400
The shot:
Initial size : 4032 x 3024 px
File extension : raw - ort
Resolution : 314ppp x 314 ppp
Color : sRGB
Final extension: 800 x 500 jpg
Traitement d'image dans Olympus Master – Encadrement dans Corel PhotoPaint
Recadrage, modification gamma, saturation et netteté. |
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