Hipparchia azorina
Hipparchia azorina, the Azores grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[2] It is endemic to the Azores. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
| Hipparchia azorina | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Hipparchia |
| Species: | H. azorina |
| Binomial name | |
| Hipparchia azorina (Strecker, 1899) | |
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Description in Seitz
S. azorinus Streck. This insect, which is unknown to me in nature, is said to be from the Azores.Dark brown ; forewing with paler, yellowish, disc and a small apical ocellus ; hindwing with an ill-defined yellow middle band which is strongly incurved above the anal angle and beneath the apex. Fringes chequered. Underside of hindwing with a pure white, sharply defined median band, at the basal side of which there are two white spots, one irregular near the base, the second quadrangular- below the cell. Described form a male. This form, which Strecker placed near neomiris, appears to be allied to alcyone.[3]
Sources
- van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M. & Settele, J. (2010). "Hipparchia azorina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T171926A6810197. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T171926A6810197.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- "Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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- Van Swaay, C.A.M. & Warren, M.S. 2000. Hipparchia azorina. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded 31 July 2007.