Muschampia orientalis
| Muschampia orientalis | |
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| Muschampia orientalis, Oriental marbled skipper | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Muschampia |
| Species: | M. orientalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Muschampia orientalis (Reverdin, 1913)
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| Synonyms | |
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Carcharodus orientalis Reverdin, 1913 | |
Muschampia orientalis, the Oriental skipper, or Oriental marbled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, east to Asia Minor, northern Iran, Ukraine, the Caucasus to Kazachstan and Turkmenistan. There is a disjoint population in northern Hungary. In the south it is also found in Wadi Al Hisha (Jordan) and Israel.
The length of the forewings is 14–15 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August in two generations.
Subspecies[]
There are at least three subspecies:
- Muschampia orientalis orientalis
- Muschampia orientalis maccabaeus Hemming, 1925 (Jordan, Israel)
- Muschampia orientalis teberdinus Devyatkin, 1990 (southern Russia)
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 along with five other species.[1]
References[]
- ^ Zhang, Jing; Brockmann, Ernst; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; et al. (2020). "A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)". Zootaxa. 4748 (1): zootaxa.4748.1.10. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10. PMC 8018707. PMID 32230093.
External links[]
- All Butterflies of Europe[permanent dead link]
- Butterfly Conservation Armenia
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