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Neohipparchia hansii

Austaut's Grayling

Middle Atlas, Morocco, September 2001

Disappointing photos. We only found one colony of this supposedly widespread but local north African species. The few specimens we found were in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco. It was early in the season for this species in early September. It starts flying about the end of August but flies into November. As we were in our first few days of our 10 day trip we made the mistake of expecting to see more later. The lack of effort on our part at this time leaves me with this minimal quality footage.

It was flying amongst very tall clumps of Stipa grass in which we hoped to find Berberia abdelkader too. As with all but the rarest habitats in Morocco it was very dry and burnt up by September.

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