Pyrgus cinarae (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 cinarae

Species name(s)

Pyrgus cinarae (Rambur, 1839) = Hesperia cinarae Rambur, 1839 = cynarae Boisduval, 1840 = Hesperia atrata Thurner, 1938 = Hesperia bigornia Agenjo, 1934 = Hesperia clorinda Warren, 1927 = Syricthus cynarae Boisduval, 1840 = Hesperia extensa Warren, 1927. [9, 10, 187]

Sandy Grizzled Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Macedonia, Russia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Western Caucasus (?), South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Potentilla recta. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Shamil Murtazin.

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