Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy Author Della Rocca, Francesca Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy fdellarocca@gmail.com Author Stefanelli, Silvia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-6070 Via Ugo Foscolo 14, 24127, Bergamo, Italy Author Cardarelli, Elisa Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy Author Bogliani, Giuseppe Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy Author Bracco, Francesco Botanical Garden, University of Pavia, Via S. Epifanio 14, Pavia, Italy & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-01-25 9 57889 57889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e57889 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e57889 1314-2828-9-e57889 F82885F715A9515B9DFC70A66F26DFF7 Aglais io Linnaeus, 1758 Ecological interactions Conservation status Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015 ), Mediterranean ( Numa et al. 2016 ) and European assessments ( Van Swaay et al. 2010 ). Distribution It is distributed in most of Europe south to northern half of Iberian peninsula, Sierra Nevada, north and central Greece, European Turkey and Mediterranean Islands. ( Tolman and Lewington 2008 ). It can be found in mainland Italy, Sardinia and Sicily ( Villa et al. 2009 ). Notes Eurycora species, it lives in open and sunny places, in the woods, wooded banks, humid meadows, uncultivated fields and disturbed ground, rocky gullies sheltered with bushes and small trees at the upper limit of the altitude. It is spread from the plain at 2500 m a.s.l. Univoltine species flies in June-July ( Paolucci 2013 , Villa et al. 2009 ).