Pyrgus onopordi (Rambur, 1839)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → tribe Pyrgini → genus Pyrgus → species Pyrgus onopordi

Species name(s)

Pyrgus onopordi (Rambur, 1839) = Hesperia onopordi Rambur, 1840 = Hesperia onopordi venusta Verity, 1925 = Hesperia albovelata Verity, 1919 = Pyrgus conyzae Guenée 1877 = Hesperia fulvotincta Verity, 1919 = Hesperia nigrosatura Verity, 1925 = Hesperia pallidissima Verity, 1925 = Hesperia pallidissimefulva Verity, 1925 = Hesperia postgenita Verity, 1926 = Pyrgus postquercii Verity 1940 = Syrichthus quercii Oberthür, 1912 = Hesperia reducta Warren, 1920 = Hesperia rubescens Verity, 1925 = Hesperia subconyzae Verity, 1925 = Hesperia tersior Verity, 1924 = Hesperia tersissima Verity, 1925 = Hesperia venusta Verity, 1925. [9, 10, 187]

Rosy Grizzled Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Netherlands, Portugal (mainland), Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Malva, Malope malacoides. [28].

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