Satyrium ledereri

Satyrium ledereri, the orange banded hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Orange banded hairstreak
S. ledereri in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Satyrium
Species:
S. ledereri
Binomial name
Satyrium ledereri
(Boisduval, 1848)

Description in Seitz

T. ledereri Bsd. (73 e). Tailed or tailless, with long fringes and the anal angle of the hindwing somewhat pointed. Upperside blackish brown, the basal area glossy grey on both wings; in the anal area of the hindwing an obsolescent russet-brown macular halfband. Underside light grey, the base dusted with light blue; both wings with a row of exteriorly white-edged black ocelli, outside which there are black submarginal spots on the forewing and a double row of dots on the hindwing with red spots between the two rows. — In Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Transcaspia and Armenia, in May.[1]

Distribution

The distribution of the orange banded hairstreak in Europe includes Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Anatolia, Palestine, and the Greek island of Samos.[2]

Life cycle and food plants

The butterflies are on wing from April to May. Larval host plants are Atraphaxis daghestanica and A. spinosa.[3] The species has one generation per year; the egg hibernates.

References
  1. Seitz, A. 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.
  2. Satyrium ledereri at Butterfly Conservation Armenia
  3. Satyrium ledereri at Butterfly Conservation Armenia


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