Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)

Common names

🇬🇧 Wall
🇫🇷 Mégère, Satyre

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Subtribe: Parargina
Genus: Lasiommata
Species: Lasiommata megera

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/lasiommata-megera.webp — Lasiommata megera foraging on a flower of Lavandula sp.

img/lasiommata-megera-2.webp — Lasiommata megera foraging on a flower of Centaurea sp.

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Lasiommata megera (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174245/7036244