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Carcharodus floccifera

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Wikipedia Abstract

Carcharodus flocciferus, the tufted skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern and central Europe, north to central Germany and east to Macedonia and Bulgaria. It is also found in Spain, Portugal, Corsica, Sardinia and uncommonly in northern and western France The length of the forewings is 14–16 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June or July to September in two generations. On higher altitudes there is only one generation from June to August. The larvae feed on Stachys and Marrubium species.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Abutilon theophrasti (buttonweed)[1]
Betonica officinalis (common hedgenettle)[2]
Stachys alpina (alpine woundwort)[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0