Kingdom Animalia Family Hesperiidae Genus Spialia Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Spialia, Butterflies and moths, Carcharodus orientalis, Muschampia, Spialia phlomidis | ||
Spialia orbifer, the orbed red-underwing skipper or Hungarian skipper is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from south-eastern Europe and temperate Asia to Korea. The habitat consists of steppe on plains and grassy slopes in the mountains.
This has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of Spialia sertorius but can be distinguished by the olive green (rather than reddish-brown) underside of the hindwing.
The wingspan is 24–28 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August in one or two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Rubus idaeus, Sanguisorba officinalis, Sanguisorba minor and Potentilla gelida.
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