Pyrgus andromedae (Wallengren, 1853)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Pyrgus andromedae (Wallengren, 1853) = andromedae (Wallengren, 1853) = Syrichthus borealis Stichel, 1908 = Pyrgus manca Kauffmann 1955 = Hesperia perseus Schawerda, 1919 = Hesperia reducta Warren, 1920 = Hesperia striata Vorbrodt, 1912. [9, 10, 187]

Alpine Grizzled Skipper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8393

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#2. Kolsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria ?, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Norway (mainland), Russia, Slovenia, Finland, France (mainland), Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia . [10].
Regions of Russia: Kola, the North Urals. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Potentilla, Alchemilla, Malva. [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
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[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