Foodplants for Melitaea varia
786x486 (~134Kb) Gentiana tenella Rottb. Rottb.(= Comostoma tenellum (Rottb.) Toyokuni) growing on a stone-like cusion of a highland cryohpyte higher plant Thylacospermum caespitosum (Camb.) Schischk. (= Peryandra caespitosa Camb.; = Lourensia caespitosa Camb.) (Caryophyllaceae), which provides growing conditions for many higher plants on barren rocks at very high altitudes. An ancient moraine in the Tyshkan River headwaters, 3400 m above sea level, 45 km NEN of Zharkent, 20 km NEN of village Sarybel', the mountain massif Tyshkantau within the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain - a NE extreme of the Tien Shan Mts., Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Region, SE Kazakhstan, Photo © Oleg Kosterin |
2448x3264 (~2049Kb) Norway: Skibotn, 29.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio |
880x984 (~150Kb) Finland: Tampere, Teisko, Jylhänperä, 2.8.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 783x1044 (~151Kb) Finland: Tampere, Viitapohja, Peräjärvi, 1.8.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 783x1044 (~113Kb) Finland: Tampere, Viitapohja, Peräjärvi, 1.8.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio |
Foodplant for Eupithecia satyrata
434x862 (~49Kb) Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 29.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio | 468x630 (~31Kb) Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 29.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio |
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