Hipparchia azorina

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Hipparchia azorina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hipparchia
Species:
H. azorina
Binomial name
Hipparchia azorina
(Strecker, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Hipparchia occidentalis

Hipparchia azorina, the Azores grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [2] It is endemic to the Azores. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Description in Seitz

S. azorinus Streck. This insect, which is unknown to me in nature, is said to be from the Azores.Dark brown; forewing with paler, yellowish, disc and a small apical ocellus; hindwing with an ill-defined yellow middle band which is strongly incurved above the anal angle and beneath the apex. Fringes chequered. Underside of hindwing with a pure white, sharply defined median band, at the basal side of which there are two white spots, one irregular near the base, the second quadrangular- below the cell. Described form a male. This form, which Strecker placed near neomiris , appears to be allied to alcyone . [3]

Sources

  1. van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M.; Settele, J. (2010). "Hipparchia azorina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010: e.T171926A6810197. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T171926A6810197.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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