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Argynnis laodice (Pallas, 1771)


Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (Hungary, Bükk mountains, early August 2020) [N] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Male (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the antepenultimate instar (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [M] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the antepenultimate instar (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [M] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the antepenultimate instar (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [M] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the antepenultimate instar (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [M] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the penultimate instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the penultimate instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the penultimate instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the penultimate instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larva in the final instar (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Prepupa (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Pupa (e.l. rearing, Romania, Sighisoara, half-grown larva in early May 2021) [S] Argynnis laodice: Larval habitat (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [N] Argynnis laodice: Larval habitat (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [N] Argynnis laodice: Larval habitat (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [N] Argynnis laodice: Larval habitat (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [N] Argynnis laodice: Larval habitat (Romania, Sighisoara, early May 2021) [N] Argynnis laodice: Habitat (Hungary, Bükk mountains, early August 2020) [N] Argynnis laodice: Habitat (Hungary, Bükk mountains, early August 2020) [N]

Host plants:
The larvae feed on various Viola species such as V. palustris or V. hirta.

Habitat:
Argynnis laodice inhabits meso- to hygrophile woodland edges, clearings, unmown meadows, wetlands, forb communities and similar places in and around woodlands.

Life cycle:
The adults usually occur between July (rarely already in late June) and late August and fly in low densities. They eagerly visit flowers of thistles and similar plants. The larva hibernates when still small and mainly develops in spring. A still quite small larva has been recorded in a modestly humid, unmown depression of a meadow at the woodland edge, together with nuumerous larvae of A. adippe (Sigisoara, Romania, early May 2021). The larva is mature between late May and late June. Pupation supposedly takes place in the low grass layer.

Endangerment factors:
Argynnis laodice is endangered by densification of woodlands, intensification of grassland management near woodlands, destroyment of wetlands and in general abandonment of traditional forms of land usage which provided a mosaic of woodland and open habitats in earlier times.

Remarks:
Argynnis laodice occurs from eastern central Europe (very scarce and local in NE-Germany, a bit more widespread in Poland, also in Slovakia and NE-Hungary) accross N-Romania, the Baltic countries and Russia to E-Asia (Korea, Japan).


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