Foulquier's Grizzled Skipper

Foulquier's Grizzled Skipper

Taxobox
name = Foulquier's Grizzled Skipper
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Hesperioidea
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Pyrginae
genus = "Pyrgus"
species = "P. bellieri"
binomial = "Pyrgus bellieri"
binomial_authority = (Oberthür, 1910)

Foulquier's Grizzled Skipper ("Pyrgus bellieri", syn. "P. foulquieri") is a species of skipper (family Hesperiidae). It has a limited distribution in central and southern France and adjacent areas of Spain and Italy and also Corsica. Within this range it can be quite common.

As with other "Pyrgus" species, this is very difficult to identify in the field. It is often paler than most of its congeners with a yellowish suffusion, especially in the female. The hindwings usually have pale markings forming a continuous band. The wingspan is 26-30 mm. The adults are on the wing in July and August.

The larval food plant is "Potentilla".

External links

* [http://www.espacionatural.com/4images/img2122.search.htm Foulquier's Grizzled Skipper at espacionatural.com (in Spanish)]
* [http://www.faunaeur.org/distribution.php Fauna Europaea]

References

*Whalley, Paul - Mitchell Beazley Guide to Butterflies (1981, reprinted 1992) ISBN 0-85533-348-0


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