Laeosopis roboris (Esper, 1789)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Theclinae → tribe Theclini → genus Laeosopis → species Laeosopis roboris

Species name(s)

Laeosopis roboris (Esper, 1789) = Papilio roboris Esper, 1794 = Papilio evippus Hübner, [1799-1803] = Laeosopis evippus = Papilio evippus Hübner, 1798/803. [9, 10, 187]

Spanish Purple Hairstreak.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Spain, Portugal, France. [1].
Andorra, Gibraltar, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Portugal (mainland), France (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Fraxinus excelsior, Ligustrum. [28].

Subspecies of Laeosopis roboris

Laeosopis roboris demissa Verity, 1943. [9]
L. r. escorialensis Oberthür, 1910. [9]
L. r. higginsi Agenjo, 1963. [9]
L. r. lusitanica Staudinger, [1892]. [9]
L. r. magis Agenjo, 1963. [9]
L. r. mudarra Agenjo, 1963. [9]
L. r. portaensis Betti, 1977. [9]
L. r. thiersi Betti, 1977. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org