| Orange banded hairstreak | |
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| S. ledereri in Seitz | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Satyrium |
| Species: | S. ledereri |
| Binomial name | |
| Satyrium ledereri (Boisduval, 1848) | |
Satyrium ledereri, the orange banded hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
T. ledereri Bsd. (73 e). Tailed or tailless, with long fringes and the anal angle of the hindwing somewhat pointed. Upperside blackish brown, the basal area glossy grey on both wings; in the anal area of the hindwing an obsolescent russet-brown macular halfband. Underside light grey, the base dusted with light blue; both wings with a row of exteriorly white-edged black ocelli, outside which there are black submarginal spots on the forewing and a double row of dots on the hindwing with red spots between the two rows. — In Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Transcaspia and Armenia, in May. [1]
The distribution of the orange banded hairstreak in Europe includes Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Anatolia, Palestine, and the Greek island of Samos. [2]
The butterflies are on wing from April to May. Larval host plants are Atraphaxis daghestanica and A. spinosa. [3] The species has one generation per year; the egg hibernates.
The name honours Julius Lederer
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