Thymelicus hyrax

Species of butterfly
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Levantine skipper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Thymelicus
Species:
T. hyrax
Binomial name
Thymelicus hyrax
(Lederer, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Hesperia hyrax Lederer, 1861
  • Adopaea pfeifferi Bytinsky-Salz & Brandt, 1937

Thymelicus hyrax, the Levantine skipper, is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae that lives in Iran, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Northwest Caucasus, Turkey, Greece, Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Rhodes[1]

Life cycle

The species predominantly inhabits dry areas, otherwise open woodlands, occupying an elevation range of up to 2000 metres above sea level. The larval host plant is probably Achnatherum bromoides. Butterflies take wing from June till August in a single generation.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Hesselbarth G., Van Oorschot H., Wagener S. 1995. Die Tagfalter der Turkei. Band 1-3. Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener. 1354 pp.
  2. ^ Thymelicus at Funet.fi http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/thymelicus/
  3. ^ Thymelicus hyrax at Butterfly Conservation Armenia http://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/thymelicus-hyrax.html
  • Species list at Butterfly Conservation Armenia
Taxon identifiers
Thymelicus hyrax
  • Wikidata: Q3134725
  • Wikispecies: Thymelicus hyrax
  • BioLib: 51267
  • BOLD: 160484
  • CoL: 7BY3L
  • EoL: 186044
  • EUNIS: 90332
  • Fauna Europaea: 440732
  • Fauna Europaea (new): 86a1b1f9-5812-44cd-9d26-f39babecefae
  • GBIF: 1944072
  • iNaturalist: 466040
  • IRMNG: 11175382
  • LepIndex: 189256
  • MaBENA: ThymeHyrax
  • NCBI: 2828949
  • Observation.org: 79706
  • Open Tree of Life: 3062236
Hesperia hyrax


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