Hipparchia azorina

Hipparchia azorina
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Hipparchia
Species:	H. azorina
Binomial name
	Hipparchia azorina; (Strecker, 1899)
Synonyms
	Hipparchia occidentalis;

Hipparchia azorina, the Azores grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[2] It is endemic to the Azores. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Description in Seitz

S. azorinus Streck. This insect, which is unknown to me in nature, is said to be from the Azores.Dark brown ; forewing with paler, yellowish, disc and a small apical ocellus ; hindwing with an ill-defined yellow middle band which is strongly incurved above the anal angle and beneath the apex. Fringes chequered. Underside of hindwing with a pure white, sharply defined median band, at the basal side of which there are two white spots, one irregular near the base, the second quadrangular- below the cell. Described form a male. This form, which Strecker placed near neomiris, appears to be allied to alcyone.[3]

Sources

van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M. & Settele, J. (2010). "Hipparchia azorina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T171926A6810197. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T171926A6810197.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
"Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Van Swaay, C.A.M. & Warren, M.S. 2000. Hipparchia azorina. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded 31 July 2007.

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[iucn-1] van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M. & Settele, J. (2010). "Hipparchia azorina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T171926A6810197. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T171926A6810197.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

[2] "Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.