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Pyrgus alveus

Large Grizzled Skipper

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Valais, Switzerland, July 2006
 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2006
 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2006
 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2004

Small upperside white markings

 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2004

Rather larger than normal fw markings but I can only
think it is alveus in 1st week of  June.

 

Provence, France, July 2003

Small upperside white markings

 

Provence, France, July 2003

 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2003
 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2003
 

SE Pyrenees, Spain, August 2003

ssp. centralhispaniae with bolder upperside spots and markings.

 

This is one of the larger Pyrgus species. It is large. Generally the upperside spots are rather small, except in the subspecies centralhispaniae which has larger bolder spots. This subspecies is found in Spain and increasingly rarely eastwards into northern Italy. Elsewhere in Europe the nominate subspecies alveus is found northward through France and Germany to Poland  through all of eastern Europe down to Greece. Other subspecies are found in Scandinavia and north Africa.

 

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