Spialia orbifer
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Spialia |
| Species: | S. orbifer |
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| Spialia orbifer (Hübner, [1823])[1] | |
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Spialia orbifer, the orbed red-underwing skipper or Hungarian skipper is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from south-eastern Europe and temperate Asia to Korea. The habitat consists of steppe on plains and grassy slopes in the mountains.
This has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of Spialia sertorius but can be distinguished by the olive green (rather than reddish-brown) underside of the hindwing.
The wingspan is 24–28 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from April to August in one or two generations per year.[3]
The larvae feed on Rubus idaeus, Sanguisorba officinalis, Sanguisorba minor and Potentilla gelida.
Subspecies
- Spialia orbifer orbifer (South-eastern Europe to south-western Siberia, northern Iran and Sicily)
- Spialia orbifer hilaris (Staudinger, 1901) (south-eastern Turkey to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, northern Iraq and western Iran)
- Spialia orbifer carnea (Reverdin, 1927) (Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Chitral)
- Spialia orbifer lugens (Staudinger, 1886) (Tian-Shan, north-eastern Iran, Transcaspia, southern Siberia to the Amur region)
- Spialia orbifer pseudolugens P. Gorbunov, 1995 (Altai, southern Urals)
External links
References
- Whalley, Paul - Mitchell Beazley Guide to Butterflies (1981, reprinted 1992) ISBN 0-85533-348-0
- ↑ Spialia, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Captain’s European Butterfly Guide
- ↑ Russian Insects
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