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Elphinstonia penia

Eastern Greenish Black Tip

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Kozani, Greece, May 2004

 

Kozani, Greece, May 2004

 

Kozani, Greece, May 2004

In dull weather it rests on the ground with wings half open.

 
 

Kozani, Greece, May 2004

Foodplant, Matthiola tessela(?), growing commonly at roadside.

 
This is a lovely species. It is an attractive very bright greenish off-yellow, the colour isn't really caught on these photos. It flies fast over dry rocky places with sparse grasses. It settles only occasionally to feed or lay eggs unless the (rather too frequent) clouds come obscure the sun. In such dull conditions they would rest on the ground allowing approach for photography, sometimes.

It flies only in small regions of northern and southern Greece and FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). It differs from its relative the Greenish Black Tip, Elphinstonia charlonia, in a number of features. That species is slightly larger, more pointed wings and much greener. There should never be any coynfusion though as their range do not over lap. Charlonia flies in southern Spain and north Africa only.

 

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