Carcharodus orientalis
| Carcharodus orientalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Carcharodus |
| Species: | C. orientalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Carcharodus orientalis Reverdin, 1913 | |
The Oriental Skipper (Carcharodus orientalis) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, east to Asia Minor, northern Iran, Ukraine, the Caucasus to Kazachstan and Turkmenistan. There is a disjoint population in northern Hungary. In the south it is also found in Wadi Al Hisha (Jordan) and Israel.
The length of the forewings is 14–15 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August in two generations.
Subspecies
There are at least three subspecies:
- Carcharodus orientalis orientalis
- Carcharodus orientalis maccabaeus Hemming, 1925 (Jordan, Israel)
- Carcharodus orientalis teberdinus Devyatkin, 1990 (southern Russia)