Pseudochazara orestes
| Dils' grayling | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. orestes
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara orestes de Prins and Van der Poorten, 1981
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Pseudochazara orestes, the Dils' grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[2] It is confined to Phalakron massif, Menikion mountains, Mount Orvilos – Greece; South Pirin mountains, precisely on the southern slopes of the Gradishte Hill in south-western Bulgaria.
Flight period
[edit]The species is univoltine and is on wing from mid-June to late July.
Food plants
[edit]Larvae feed on grasses.
References
[edit]- ^ van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M.; Settele, J. (2010). "Pseudochazara orestes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T173302A6987579. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T173302A6987579.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms