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Levantine Skipper
Thymelicus hyrax
Thymelicus hyrax, the Levantine skipper, is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae. The species is distributed in Iran, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan), Northwest Caucasus (Russia), Turkey, Greece, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes
From the article Thymelicus hyrax on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
The species predominantly inhabits dry areas, otherwise open woodlands, occupying an elevation range of up to 2000 metres above sea level. The larval host plant is probably Achnatherum bromoides. Butterflies take wing from June till August in a single generation.
Wikipedia: “Life cycle”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 466040.