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Pyrgus cacaliae (Dusky Grizzled Skipper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The dusky grizzled skipper (Pyrgus cacaliae) is a species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae). This is a species of the high Alps probably occurring in the Pyrenees also. The most similar species is the Alpine grizzled skipper, which is usually encountered at lower altitudes. It can be distinguished from this species by the smaller, fainter pale markings on the forewing and the less bold markings on the underwing The adult flies from June until August. One generation is produced per year. The larval food plant is coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara).
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Infraspecies

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pirin 99722 Bulgaria  
Rila 200269 Bulgaria  
Tzentralen Balkan 177099 Bulgaria  

Prey / Diet

Homogyne alpina alpina (Coltsfoot)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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