FIGURE 1 in A checklist of the satyrine genus Erebia (Lepidoptera) (1758–2006)

• Main Author: Tennent, John
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Tennent; Mite; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5135005; https://zenodo.org/record/5135005

FIGURE 1: Erebia ligea photographed in the hills to the south west of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The parasitic red mite larvae attached to the butterfly's thorax belong to a species of Erythraeoidea or Trombidioidea. The precise impact on the host is not well studied, but is not known to result in host mortality. When fully fed, larvae drop to the ground to complete their life cycle. They are not infrequent on other satyrine butterflies, although in the author's experience it is unusual for them to be so prominent; they are more often attached to the lateral part of the thorax, below the wings. In one meadow near the shores of Lake Baikal infested specimens of E. ligea could be identified in flight even from a distance (photo: John Tennent) : Published as part of Tennent, John, 2008, A checklist of the satyrine genus Erebia (Lepidoptera) (1758–2006), pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 1900 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1900.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5135004