Spialia phlomidis, the Persian skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, southern Russia, Asia Minor and Iran. The habitat consists of dry steppe habitats at moderate elevations.[2]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Spialia |
Species: | S. phlomidis
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Binomial name | |
Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845)[1]
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The length of the forewings is 14–15 mm.The median band iscomplete and continuous. The triangular spot between veins 6 and 7 is strongly elongated, and the one in interspace 8 continued to the angle.[3] Adults are on wing from June to July in one generation.
The larvae feed on Convolvulus libanotica.
Subspecies
edit- Spialia phlomidis phlomidis (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, southern Russia, Iran, Alai)
- Spialia phlomidis hermona Evans, 1956 (Lebanon)
References
edit- ^ Spialia, funet.fi
- ^ Russian Insects
- ^ Adalbert Seitz Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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