Hipparchia maderensis

Hipparchia maderensis, the Madeiran grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[2] It is endemic to Madeira. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Seitz treats it as a race of Hipparchia semele - in maderensis Baker, from Madeira the upperside in both sexes is strongly obscured and in the male almost without any markings.^[3]

Hipparchia maderensis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Hipparchia
Species:	H. maderensis
Binomial name
Hipparchia maderensis (Bethune-Baker, 1891)