Lucin (lat. Hamearis Lucina) is a type of daytime butterflies that belongs to the scales detachment. The people are better known as Pestrushka Lesnaya, but still more scientifically correct is the Latin name.
Appearance
In size, this butterfly is much larger than many other representatives of the detachment. Its wingspan can vary from one and a half centimeters to four, which generally seems unimaginable, since three centimeters are already a lot, but here even four. At the same time, females are larger in size than males, which is also a distinctive feature of this type. In addition, the dimensions change depending on the habitat, since on the territory of Eurasia the wingspan of the wings of Lucin, with rare exceptions, hardly reaches two centimeters. This is due to differences in climatic conditions: the butterfly simply does not receive the right amount of substances to grow to its maximum size.
The base of the upper part of the wings can be dark brown, and there are many spots in a checkerboard pattern, which form a specific pattern and it is for them that this species is considered a unique. The lower side preserves this drawing, but it becomes less noticeable, and several spots of white color appear from behind.
Where it lives
Lucin, although it belongs to endangered species, its habitat extends to the entire territory of Europe representatives of this species can be found from Spain to the mountains of the Urals. But due to a quick decrease in the number of population, the range of the range is increasingly shifting towards the West, since it is there that is currently the most favorable conditions for Lucin’s life. In addition, although the habitat affects many countries, for example, in southern Spain this species is not found, as in Greece, as well as on several small islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Over the past hundred years, the Lucin scrap has decreased significantly and to this day continues to decrease at an unimaginable speed. On the territory of Eurasia, these butterflies have only a couple of populations in several isolated areas at all. Most often they can be found in meadows, sunny glades or curbs of forest roads.
Red Book
Almost throughout Europe, except for its western parts, there is a mass decrease in Lucine population. This is due to the active activity of a person in the habitats of reservoirs. Many species depend on pure water, but a person pollutes it more and more every year, which is why the animals are dying, and the species and even families disappear at an unthinkable speed. In Eurasia, they are diligently trying to develop specialized areas that will not be affected and in them will be able to live with a calm soul of rare species of insects, as well as animals.
Reproduction
The female lays one or two eggs on the foliage of fodder plants. Eggs, unlike other species, do not pass wintering and from them in two weeks caterpillars hatch. In this stage, they are two to three weeks to accumulate the required amount of nutrients, and after they pupate and a full-fledged individual hatches from the doll and already hatching from the doll.
