Pyronia bathseba
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Spanish gatekeeper | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pyronia |
Species: | P. bathseba
|
Binomial name | |
Pyronia bathseba | |
![]() | |
Synonyms | |
|
Pyronia bathseba, the Spanish gatekeeper, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and in France, Morocco, and Algeria. A similar gatekeeper species is Pyronia tithonus, which is found in northern Europe.
Description
The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The butterfly is on wing from May to July depending on the location.
-
Male
-
Male underside
-
Female
-
Female underside
Biology
The larvae feed on Poaceae species, mainly Brachypodium species.
References
- ^ "Pyronia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pyronia bathseba.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Taxonbars with automatically added original combinations
- Pyronia
- Butterflies of Europe
- Butterflies described in 1793
- Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
- All stub articles
- Satyrini stubs