A brown Eurasian butterfly with orange markings on the wings, which breeds on grasses.
Lasiommata megera, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae
Example sentencesExamples
- The wall brown or wall is a medium-sized brown butterfly with large, bright orange patches on the wings.
- There is the smaller Northern wall brown L. petropolitana which is darker and smaller.
- I've shown the real wall brown on the right.
- In the scrub, the last of the year's insects can be seen: late dragonflies include ruddy darters and migrant hawkers; and the last of the year's butterflies includes wall browns and small tortoiseshells.