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Wall Brown?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:29 pm
by Martin
Is this a Wall Brown? The spots match the photo in my ID book, as does the description of habit etc. However, the main orange/brown marbled areas are quite different. My book shows a female, so I'm thinking this might be a male. Either that or it's a sub-spiecies as I live in Spain.
Martin.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:50 pm
by Pete Eeles
Hi Martin,
This is actually a Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria), although it is the subspecies aegeria (Pararge aegeria aegeria), which we don't have in the UK. See
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species. ... led%20Wood for the UK subspecies tircis.
See
http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesP ... rAeger.htm for the subspecies aegeria (and other subspecies).
I hope the Spanish weather is better than that in the UK at the moment!
Cheers,
- Pete
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:14 am
by Martin
Thanks, once again.
How's Thatcham? I used to live outside Basingstoke in another life and have very good friends in Burfield Common.
Martin.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:39 am
by Pete Eeles
Thatcham's fine
It's quite good living near the Wiltshire / Berkshire / Hampshire border for butterflies!
Cheers,
- Pete
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:34 pm
by Dipper
I also was in Spain recently and saw several of these Speckled Woods but only managed an underwing shot. Nice to know what they are, thanks.
Adi