Lasiommata megera

Wall brown
Male
Sorrento Peninsula, Italy
Male
Pewsey Downs, Wiltshire, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lasiommata
Species:
L. megera
Binomial name
Lasiommata megera
Synonyms
  • Papilio megera Linnaeus, 1767
  • Dira megera (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Pararge megaera (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Satyrus megaera (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Satyrus maegera (Linnaeus, 1767)

Lasiommata megera, the wall or wall brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (subfamily Satyrinae). It is widespread in the Palearctic realm with a large variety of habitats and number of generations a year.

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