Coenonympha vaucheri
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Coenonympha |
| Species: | C. vaucheri
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Coenonympha vaucheri, or Vaucher's heath, is a butterfly that belongs to the family Nymphalidae and is endemic to Morocco.[2]
Description
[edit]The top side of the butterfly is ochre-yellow with a deep black distal edge with the forewing bearing a huge apical ocellus without a pupil. This gives the butterfly the appearance of having large eyes to ward off predators. It's hindwing has between 4 or 5 black spots lined up in a straight row. Underneath the wings the apical ocellus is pupiled, these may increase in number (ab. geminipuncta Blach). The baseof the hindwing is a blackish olive-colour with a white highlight, the end portion of the wing is a dirty white colour and has six equally large pupiled ocelli.
References
[edit]- ^ Blachier, 1905 Lépidoptères du Maroc - Remarque sur diverses espèces et descriptions de variétés nouvelles Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 77 (2) : 209-222
- ^ "Coenonympha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms