Hipparchia syriaca (Staudinger, 1871)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Satyrini → subtribe Satyrina → genus Hipparchia → subgenus Hipparchia → species Hipparchia syriaca

Species name(s)

Hipparchia (Hipparchia) syriaca (Staudinger, 1871) = Satyrus hermione syriaca Staudinger, 1871 = Satyrus hermione attikana Fruhstorfer, 1907 = Eumenis fagi serrula Fruhstorfer, 1908 = meshetica (Jachontov, 1915) = Satyrus tokatensis Gross, 1959. [9, 10, 187]

Eastern Rock Grayling.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8735

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, North Aegean, Turkey (European part), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Hipparchia syriaca

Hipparchia syriaca cypriaca Staudinger, 1878. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Polstyanoy, Pavel Nesmeyanov.

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