Pyrgus maculatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Pyrgus |
Species: | P. maculatus |
Binomial name | |
Pyrgus maculatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853) | |
Synonyms | |
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Pyrgus maculatus is an eastern Palearctic butterfly in the family Hesperiidae and subfamily Pyrginae. The species was first described by Otto Vasilievich Bremer and William Grey in 1853. [1] [2] It is found in South Siberia (Altai to Ussuri) and Japan. The larva feeds on Spiraea species (including Spiraea ussuriensis and Spiraea media ) and Potentilla freyniana.
Biston is a genus of large, long-winged moths belonging to the family Geometridae. It is most notable for containing the well-known peppered moth. The genus was first described by William Elford Leach in 1815.
Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera Burnsius and Carterocephalus. They occur in the Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the Neotropic.
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Oberthür's grizzled skipper is a species of skipper.
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Amphipyra is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae, the only genus in the tribe Amphipyrini.
Erebia euryale, the large ringlet, is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae.
Ophthalmitis is a genus of geometer moths in the Boarmiini tribe.
The safflower skipper is a species of skipper butterfly.
Semiothisa is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Lobocla is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Eudaminae, within which they are placed in subtribe Loboclina. Unlike the rest of the Eudaminae, which have a New World distribution, the genus is endemic to Asia.
Marumba is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882.
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