Iberian Marbled White, medioluto ibérica

Description:

Butterfly with 48-54 mm wingspan. Very variable. Male has the anverse white with black drawings. The cell in the forewing is white with pointed form. Hindwings are white with black spots shaped as arrows at the edge, around not very visible ocela. The reverse of the hindwing is whitish with variable ocela with bluish pupils. The female is bigger with the hindwing reverse yellowish. It flies from June to September, one generation per year. The imagos visit the flowers of brambles and thistles. The caterpillars are green or bluff with longitudinal streaks white and dark

Habitat:

meadows and dry hillsides at heights up to 1700 m. Spotted at Sierra de Guadarrama at 1400 meters high in a pine-tree forest.

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/500 sec., f/11.0, ISO Speed Rating: 800. Focal Length: 300.0 mm.