Lycaena dispar Haworth, 1802

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Lycaena dispar Haworth, 1802

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015) and European assessments ( Van Swaay et al. 2010); Near-Threatened for Global assessment ( Gimenez 1996).

Distribution

It is distributed in Europe and north Turkey ( Tolman and Lewington 2008). It can be found in northern and central Italy. It is present in the Po Valley and in the wetlands of northern Tuscany. The population of Lazio (Paludi Pontine) became extinct during the first half of the 1900s ( Villa et al. 2009, IUCN, 2020 2020).

Notes

Hygrophilous species, it lives in humid meadows from the plain up to 500m a.s.l. Trivoltine species, with generations in April-May, June-July, August-September ( Paolucci 2013, Villa et al. 2009).