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Muschampia lavatherae
Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Muschampia lavatherae, the marbled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from the Rhine Rift Valley in central Germany up to North Africa and from south-eastern France up to Anatolia.
The wingspan is 28–34 mm.
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Description in Seitz
C. lavatherae Esp. (85 a). Yellowish grey or ash-colour; hindwing darker, with two rows of distinct, almost white, spots. Underside of hindwing with two small grey bands in the centre. — Southern Europe, North Africa, Syria, Armenia. [1]
Biology
The butterfly gives one generation per year and flies from May to July depending on the location.[2]
The larvae feed on Stachys recta and Sideritis scordioides in Southern Europe.
This species was formerly a member of the genus Carcharodus. As a result of genomic research published in 2020, it was transferred to the genus Muschampia.[3]
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