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Lopinga

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Lopinga is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae. Lopinga achine, a threatened species classified as vulnerable in Swedish Red data book (Ehnström et al., 1993) This butterfly frequents glades in partly open oak woodland where female egg-laying butterflies would glade by host plants and lay their eggs. Suggesting that Lopinga achine has specific habitat requirements that can only be met with the glades that female butterflies prefer to lay their eggs.

Species

Woodland Brown

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyNymphalidae
Observations2,617

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
Family
Nymphalidae
Collections
USNM, NHMUK

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Parargina
Image
Woodland brown (Lopinga achine) male underside Postojna.jpg
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Category:Lopinga
taxon name
Lopinga
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Lopinga
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