Fluturat e Shqipërisë
Butterflies of Albania

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Last update: 05.viii.2023

Fabriciana adippe / High Brown Fritillary
Adipja
Nymphalidae - Heliconiinae

Fabriciana adippe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775). TL: Vienna.

1a. Fabriciana adippe, distribution map. Historical data ; Additional data from the 2018 update ; New observations since the 2018 update.
1b. Fabriciana adippe ♂ upperside, taken by a crab spider. Mali i Thatë, Albania (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1c. Fabriciana adippe ♂ lateral. Tudis, Albania (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1d. Fabriciana adippe ♂ underside, caught by a crab spider. Mali i Thatë, Albania (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1e. Fabriciana adippe ♂ mud puddling. Romania (© Sylvain Cuvelier)

Description
♂♂
Large butterfly. Fw: 25-31 mm.
Ups: bright fulvous gc.
Upf: conspicuous, wide sex-brands along v2-3.
Unf: paler gc.
Unh: buff gc, often with light olive-green suffusion, variable silvery spots and postdiscal row of brown-ringed silver-pupilled (largely reduced silvery spots in forma cleodoxa), small or absent spot in s4 without black dot.
♀♀
Similar size.
Ups similar, without sex brands.
Uns similar.

Similar species

Fabriciana niobe Size:often slightly smaller Fabriciana. Upf: ♂♂ narrow sex-brands along v1-3. Unh: yellow-buff spot in cell base. Unh: often centered with small black dot. Unh: narrowly ringed pd ocelli Forma eris: unh buf spots replacing silvery spots.       Speyeria aglaja Size:similar. Upf: ♂♂ narrow sex-brands along v1-3. Unh: no pd ocelli. Unh: no spot in cell base.

Life cycle
Adults: single generation from mid-June to August.
Egg: loverwintering with young larva in the chorion.
Caterpillar: 8-10 weeks.
Pupa: 14-28 days.

Habitat
Fabriciana adippe inhabits dry limestone grasslands with scattered bushes and in open, sunny spaces in light woodlands from 500 up to 1800 m a.s.l.
Spatial requirement considerable, population density can be high.

Foodplants
Caterpillars feed on Viola canina, V.hirta, V. odorata, V. reichenbachiana, V. riviniana and V. tricolor.
Butterflies feed on a large variety of flowers.

Distribution
Albania: widespread in the mountains.
Balkan: AL - BG - BIH - GR - HR - NMK - MNE - RKS - RO - SLO - SRB
Europe: IB - IT - ALP - BAL - NWE - UK - SCA - EEU
Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Caucasus and further east.

Conservation status
Fabriciana adippe is not endangered.
Albanian Red List: NE.
IUCN Red List, category at the Mediterranean level: LC.

Useful links
Bink 2015
Pyrgus.de
Lepiforum
Euroleps

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