Genus Satyrium Rank Subspecies | ||
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Similar Satyrium spini, Glaucopsyche melanops, Satyrium, Satyrium ilicis, Satyrium acaciae | ||
Satyrium esculi en tertanga
Distribution
The false ilex hairstreak lives throughout North Africa (Morocco to Tunisia) and the Iberian Peninsula (with the exception of Galicia, where its food plants are absent). It is also found on the Balearic Islands and in southern France from the Pyrenees to the Cote d'Azur, extending into Liguria in Italy.
Food plants
The larvae feed on sclerophyllous oaks of woodland and maquis: holm oak and kermes oak.
References
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