Libythea celtis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Libytheinae
Genus: Libythea
Species: Libythea celtis
Name

Libythea celtis (Laicharting, 1782)

Type locality: Austria, Tirol

Neotype: BMNH. male ♂. (designated by Kawahara 2013: 11).
Synonyms

Papilio celtis Laicharting, 1782
Hypatus feverus Hübner, 1822
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. obscura Millière, 1879 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 10)
Libythea celtis livida Saggara, 1926 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis denudata Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (libythea) celtis separata Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. subochracea Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. violacea Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. albonervulata Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. obscurenervulata Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. pygmaea Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. rubescens Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. pallida Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)
Libythea (Libythea) celtis f. latefulva Verity, 1950 (synonymized by Kawahara 2013: 11)

References

Kawahara, A.Y. 2013. Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Zootaxa 3631(1): 001–074. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3631.1.1 Preview. Reference page.
Laicharting, 1782: in Fuessly, Arch. Insectengesch. (Heft 2) (4): 1, pl. 8, f. 1-3

Vernacular names
English: Nettle-tree Butterfly; European Beak
français: Échancré
magyar: Csőröslepke
日本語: テングチョウ
中文（臺灣）: 長鬚蝶
中文: 朴喙蝶

Libythea celtis, the European beak or nettle-tree butterfly, is a butterfly of the Libytheinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The upperside ground colour is rich silky brown. The forewing has the cell filled with a broad orange-yellow streak which is subapically deeply indented above; a small discal orange-yellow spot present in interspace 1; a much larger, similarly coloured discal spot between veins 2 and 4, on the inner side touching the cell between veins 3 and 4; a subcostal white preapical spot and a quadrate double spot in interspaces 4 and 5, placed obliquely forward to the subcostal spot; this spot whitish above, orange below. Hindwing uniform, with an irregular curved, transverse, upper postdiscal orange patch extending from just below vein 3 to interspace 6, the portion in interspace 6 often detached. Underside ground colour: forewing brown, apex pale purplish irrorated (sprinkled) with minute dark transverse striae and dots, orange markings as on the upperside but paler; hindwing uniform pale purplish irrorated with minute dark dots and transverse striae. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the tint of the underside of the hindwing.[1]

Dorsal side

Ventral side

Its range is southern Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia and the Chitral ranges of Pakistan.
References

Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.