Spialia osthelderi
Spialia osthelderi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Spialia |
Species: | S. osthelderi |
Binomial name | |
Spialia osthelderi (Pfeiffer, 1932)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Spialia osthelderi, Osthelder's Skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found from Asia Minor, the Middle East to Lebanon and through Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan.[2] The habitat consists of dry stream-beds and stony slopes in mountainous areas up to altitudes of 2,600 meters.
Adults are on wing from April to May, probably in two generations per year.
Subspecies
- Spialia osthelderi osthelderi (Asia Minor to the Middle East, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, western Iran)
- Spialia osthelderi gecko Evans, 1949 (Kopet-Dagh and Iran to Afghanistan, Sussamyr Mountains)
References
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- ↑ Spialia, funet.fi
- ↑ Russian Insects
External links
- AdaMerOs - Butterflies of Turkey
- Systematics and evolution of the Palaearctic Spialia species (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)