Carcharodus orientalis

Carcharodus orientalis

The Oriental Skipper is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, east to Asia Minor, northern Iran, Ukraine, the Caucasus to Kazachstan and Turkmenistan. There is a disjoint population in northern Hungary. In the south it is also found in Wadi Al Hisha and Israel.

The length of the forewings is 14-15 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August in two generations.
Oriental Marbled Skipper (Carcharodus orientalis)  Butterfly,Carcharodus orientalis,Insects,Oriental Marbled Skipper

Naming

There are at least three sybspecies:
⤷  ''Carcharodus orientalis orientalis''
⤷  ''Carcharodus orientalis maccabaeus'' Hemming, 1925
⤷  ''Carcharodus orientalis teberdinus'' Devyatkin, 1990

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyHesperiidae
GenusCarcharodus
SpeciesC. orientalis