Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1845)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1845) = phlomidis (Herrich-Schäffer, [1845]) = jason Oberthür, 1912 = eupator Hemming, 1932 = Syricthus eupator Hemming, 1932 = Syrichtus jason Oberthür, 1912. [9, 10, 187]

Persian Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, Turkey (European part). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Convolulus. [28].

Subspecies of Spialia phlomidis

Spialia phlomidis hermona Evans, 1956. [9]
S. p. kiki Higgins, 1974. [187]
S. p. phlomidis. [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