Pyrgus armoricanus (Oberthür, 1910)

Common names

🇬🇧 Oberthür’s Grizzled Skipper
🇫🇷 Hespérie des Potentilles, Armoricain

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Tribe: Pyrgini
Genus: Pyrgus
Species: Pyrgus armoricanus

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/pyrgus-armoricanus.webp — Pyrgus armoricanus

img/pyrgus-armoricanus-2.webp — Pyrgus armoricanus foraging on a flower of Trifolium repens

img/pyrgus-armoricanus-3.webp — Pyrgus armoricanus

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Pyrgus armoricanus (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174393/7063916