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Nīcgale Forest
Nīcgale forest is Latvia protected landscape area in Augšdaugava Municipality, in Nīcgale Parish, east of Nīcgale. At the eastern point of the territory is Nicgale Great Stone. The site contains EU Habitats Directive habitats - old or natural boreal forests, old mixed broadleaf forests, walking forests. This is the '' Natura 2000 '' area. Flora A large number of protected plant species are found here, including ramsons (''Allium ursinum''), clustered bur-reed ('' Sparganium glomeratum''), downy buttercup ('' Ranunculus lanuginosus''), Lyon's notchwort ('). One of the species of flowering plants - hairy agrimony (''Agrimonia pilosa'') is protected under EU Nature directives. Fauna Nīcgales forest is home to a significant number of butterfly species, including marsh fritillary (''Euphydryas aurinia''), Scarce fritillary (''Euphydryas maturna'', ('' Lycaena dispar''), scarce heath (''Coenonympha hero''), woodland brown (''Lopinga achine''), blue underwing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranunculus
''Ranunculus'' is a large genus of about almost 1700 to more than 1800 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. The genus is distributed in Europe, North America and South America. The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup ''Ranunculus repens'', which has extremely tough and tenacious roots. Two other species are also widespread, the bulbous buttercup ''Ranunculus bulbosus'' and the much taller meadow buttercup ''Ranunculus acris''. In ornamental gardens, all three are often regarded as weeds. Buttercups usually flower in the spring, but flowers may be found throughout the summer, especially where the plants are growing as opportunistic colonizers, as in the case of garden weeds. The water crowfoots (''Ranunculus'' subgenus ''Batrachium''), which grow in still or running water, are sometimes tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Underwing
''Catocala fraxini'', the blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. Distribution The distribution area covers almost the entire Central Europe, central and northern Europe, as well as parts of southern Europe. The species is largely missing in Portugal, the Mediterranean islands (except Corsica), in Greece, in northern Scotland, in northern Scandinavia and north and in southern Russia. The distribution area stretches across the Palearctic to northern Turkey, Siberia, Russian Far East, Korea and Japan. The name "Clifden nonpareil" is derived from the location of the first British records, at the Cliveden estate in Berkshire in the 18th-century, "" meaning "without equal" in French. The moth became extinct as a breeding species in Great Britain by the 1960s with post-war changes to forestry, such as whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lopinga Achine
''Lopinga achine'', the woodland brown, is a Palearctic butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Description in Seitz P. ''achine'' Scop. (= ''dejanira'' L.) (45 g). Dark brown: forewing with 5—6 eye-rings forming a chain, hindwing with 2—4 such rings. Underside proximally to the ocelli with a white distal band which is variable and may be so much reduced that the row of ocelli is placed within the ground-colour. Deviations in the band occur especially often in alpine specimens, though singly also in other places, ab. ''mendelensis'' Lowe being based on such variation. From West Europe throughout Central and North Europe, Siberia and North China to Japan, northward to Livonia. North Russia and Amurland. southward to Northern Italy. — In the east of the area there occur specimens with the eye-rings on the upperside enlarged, ab. ''achinoides'' Btl. (= ''eximia'' Stgr.). the specimens being moreover often of a brighter colour: but they fly together with individuals which are not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodland Brown
''Lopinga achine'', the woodland brown, is a Palearctic butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Description in Seitz P. ''achine'' Scop. (= ''dejanira'' L.) (45 g). Dark brown: forewing with 5—6 eye-rings forming a chain, hindwing with 2—4 such rings. Underside proximally to the ocelli with a white distal band which is variable and may be so much reduced that the row of ocelli is placed within the ground-colour. Deviations in the band occur especially often in alpine specimens, though singly also in other places, ab. ''mendelensis'' Lowe being based on such variation. From West Europe throughout Central and North Europe, Siberia and North China to Japan, northward to Livonia. North Russia and Amurland. southward to Northern Italy. — In the east of the area there occur specimens with the eye-rings on the upperside enlarged, ab. ''achinoides'' Btl. (= ''eximia'' Stgr.). the specimens being moreover often of a brighter colour: but they fly together with individuals which are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coenonympha Hero
''Coenonympha hero'', the scarce heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Distribution It can be found in Central Europe, Northern Europe and the North Palearctic (Urals East to Mongolia, Korea and Japan). Description It resembles ''Coenonympha arcania''.In Seitz it is described "On the upperside resembles ''Coenonympha oedippus'' smaller and just as dark, but on the hindwing 2 or 3 ocelli shine through from beneath as yellowish brown rings. On the underside itself the ocelli are placed in orange rings, and on their basal side there is a straight white line, which is thickened into knots on the veins. Northern and Central Europe and the whole of Northern Asia, from Sweden as far as the Alps, and from Belgium eastwards to the Pacific Ocean and Japan. ab. ''stolida'' Schilde, from Scandinavia, is smaller and darker, and the forewing bears a white distal band on their underside. In ab. ''perseis'' Led. ubspecies(= ''sibirica'' Stgr.) (48a), which in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarce Heath
''Coenonympha hero'', the scarce heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Distribution It can be found in Central Europe, Northern Europe and the North Palearctic (Urals East to Mongolia, Korea and Japan). Description It resembles ''Coenonympha arcania''.In Seitz it is described "On the upperside resembles ''Coenonympha oedippus'' smaller and just as dark, but on the hindwing 2 or 3 ocelli shine through from beneath as yellowish brown rings. On the underside itself the ocelli are placed in orange rings, and on their basal side there is a straight white line, which is thickened into knots on the veins. Northern and Central Europe and the whole of Northern Asia, from Sweden as far as the Alps, and from Belgium eastwards to the Pacific Ocean and Japan. ab. ''stolida'' Schilde, from Scandinavia, is smaller and darker, and the forewing bears a white distal band on their underside. In ab. ''perseis'' Led. ubspecies(= ''sibirica'' Stgr.) (48a), which in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaena Dispar
The large copper (''Lycaena dispar'') is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. ''L. dispar'' has been commonly arranged into three subspecies: ''L. dispar dispar'', (single-brooded) which was commonly found in England, but is now extinct, ''L. d. batavus'', (single-brooded) can be found in the Netherlands and has been reintroduced into the United Kingdom, and lastly, ''L. d. rutilus, (double-brooded)'' which is widespread across central and southern Europe. The latter has been declining in many European countries, due to habitat loss. Currently ''L. dispar'' is in severe decline in northwest Europe, but expanding in central and northern Europe. Native to Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. It is regionally extinct in the United Kingdom, due to habi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphydryas Maturna
The scarce fritillary (''Euphydryas maturna'') is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Sweden. Description File:Euphydryas maturna maturna dorsal.jpg, ''E. maturna maturna'' from Grodno, Belarus. Dorsal side File:Euphydryas maturna maturna ventral.jpg, ''E. maturna maturna'' from Nevesjnie, Bosnia. Ventral side File:maivogel unten.jpg, Underside The scarce fritillary's wingspan ranges from 35 to 42 mm. The upper sides of the wings have a black-brown ground colour with a pattern of orange bands and a distinguished pattern of white spots. The veins and margins are black and brown. The pigmentation on the wing underside is orange and the details are blurred. The underside forewings exhibit a wide range of different shades of light and dark orange, the underside hindwings are orange wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarce Fritillary
The scarce fritillary (''Euphydryas maturna'') is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Sweden. Description File:Euphydryas maturna maturna dorsal.jpg, ''E. maturna maturna'' from Grodno, Belarus. Dorsal side File:Euphydryas maturna maturna ventral.jpg, ''E. maturna maturna'' from Nevesjnie, Bosnia. Ventral side File:maivogel unten.jpg, Underside The scarce fritillary's wingspan ranges from 35 to 42 mm. The upper sides of the wings have a black-brown ground colour with a pattern of orange bands and a distinguished pattern of white spots. The veins and margins are black and brown. The pigmentation on the wing underside is orange and the details are blurred. The underside forewings exhibit a wide range of different shades of light and dark orange, the underside hindwings are orange wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphydryas Aurinia
The marsh fritillary (''Euphydryas aurinia'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Commonly distributed in the Palearctic region, the marsh fritillary's common name derives from one of its several habitats, marshland. The prolonged larval stage lasts for approximately seven to eight months and includes a period of hibernation over the winter. The larvae are dependent on the host food plant '' Succisa pratensis'' not only for feeding but also for hibernation, because silken webs are formed on the host plant as the gregarious larvae enter hibernation. Females lay eggs in batches on the host plant and are, like other batch-layers, selective about the location of oviposition because offspring survivorship levels for batch-layers are more tied to location selection than they are for single-egg layers. As of 2019 the butterfly's global conservation status is considered of least concern, but it has faced rapid decline and is considered regionally vulnerable or endangered over muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh Fritillary
The marsh fritillary (''Euphydryas aurinia'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Commonly distributed in the Palearctic region, the marsh fritillary's common name derives from one of its several habitats, marshland. The prolonged larval stage lasts for approximately seven to eight months and includes a period of hibernation over the winter. The larvae are dependent on the host food plant ''Succisa pratensis'' not only for feeding but also for hibernation, because silken webs are formed on the host plant as the gregarious larvae enter hibernation. Females lay eggs in batches on the host plant and are, like other batch-layers, selective about the location of oviposition because offspring survivorship levels for batch-layers are more tied to location selection than they are for single-egg layers. As of 2019 the butterfly's global conservation status is considered of least concern, but it has faced rapid decline and is considered regionally vulnerable or endangered over much o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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