Hipparchia blachieri

Hipparchia blachieri is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1908. It is endemic to Sicily and Malta.[1]

Hipparchia blachieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Hipparchia
Species:
H. blachieri
Binomial name
Hipparchia blachieri
(Frühstorfer, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Satyrus semele blachieri Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Hipparchia (Parahipparchia) blachieri
  • Hipparchia vallettai Valletta, 1971
  • Satyrus siciliana Oberthür, 1915
  • Hipparchia vallettae Kudrna, 1975

The wingspan is 58–65 mm.

Taxonomy

The species is often treated as a subspecies of Hipparchia neapolitana.[2]

gollark: I feel like I'm too easily bored/distracted for that to get past me not particularly liking exercise.
gollark: Being forced to do a thing can ruin basically *everything*!
gollark: I think most people here are in engineering/computing/science-adjacent things.
gollark: That seems vaguely abusive or something.
gollark: It would be extremely hard to fake an entire pandemic and consequent excess death counts and whatever.

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. lepiforum.de


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.