LEPIDOPTERA

• H E S P E R I I D A E Latreille, 1809

  • PYRGUS Hubner, [1819]

    
    

    • Pyrgus maculatus (Bremer et Grey, 1853)

Pyrgus maculatus (Bremer et Grey, 1853)

• TYPE LOCALITY. "environs de Pekin" [Beijing, China].

• SYNONYMS: zonaMabille, 1875; albistriga Mabille, 1876.

• RANGE. Central and E. Asia from S. Siberia and Mongolia to N. Burma and Japan.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. S. Siberia from the Altai Mts. to the Ussuri region. There are two very different seasonal forms formerly considered as separate species.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Flight in grassy meadows and at forest edges in May-June and July-August in two generations. Host plants in Ussuri region (Graeser, 1888): Spiraea (S. ussuriensis, S. media); in Japan, larvae have been recorded on Potentilla freyniana (Fukuda et al., 1984).

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 1. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 1997