The Sardinian meadow brown (Maniola nurag) is a butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae."Maniola Schrank, 1801" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms It is a small butterfly with orange and brown colouring. The butterfly is only found in Sardinia.Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: Guide to the butterflies of Europe and North Africa. 1997 Seitz describes it thus E. nurag Ghil. (47 c). Considerably smaller than the jurtina-forms, otherwise closely allied to them. Both sexes with an ochre-yellow distal band, which in the male is sometimes reduced to an interrupted half-band of the forewing, but usually, as always in the female, continues through both the wings; the ground colour a very pale brown. The underside of the hindwing greyish brown, with a sometimes obsolete, mostly but slightly prominent median band. — In Sardinia and Corsica, in June and July, very local, apparently only flying in localities of a certain definite character which are covered with hard grasses.Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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