Hesperia florinda

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Hesperia florinda
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Hesperia
Species:
H. florinda
Binomial name
Hesperia florinda
(Butler, 1878) [1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila florindaButler, 1878
  • Pamphila mikadoLeech, 1895
  • Pamphila repugnansStaudinger, 1892

Hesperia florinda is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (Hesperiinae). It is found in the East Palearctic in Transbaikalia to Korea, Amur, Ussuri and Japan. The larva feeds on Carex . There is a single broods. The egg hibernates. [2] Hesperia florinda was previously a subspecies of Hesperia comma .

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References

  1. Hesperia, funet.fi
  2. Taro Iwase, 1954 Synopsis of the known life-histories of Japanese butterflies The Lepidopterists' News 1954: 95-100 pdf