Carcharodus dravira (Moore, 1874)

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Original description

Pyrgus dravira“ Moore, F. 1874 (Descriptions of New Asiatic Lepidoptera. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1874: 576; Taf. 67, Fig. 5, Female). Type locality „Cashmere (Capt. H. B. Hellard)“.


Diagnosis

Very similar C. orientalis; determination only by genitalia analysis.


Genitalia














































(Female genitalia to follow)




Subspecies

No information available due to the scarcity of material.


Distribution

Central Asia (Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kashmir, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrghizstan). Mountain species. The figured specimens are from northeastern Iran.


Flight time

Pobably only one generation. Field resarch necessary.


Ecology and habitats

Not sufficiently known. Found in dry, rocky habitats and dry riverbeds.


Host plants

Iran: Stachys, Marrubium.


Remarks

More field research necessary.



Important Literature and internet links

Russian-insects.com



Devyatkin, A.L. (1991): Review of skippers of the genus Carcharodus Hbn. (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) of the USSR. – Entomological Review, 70 (7): 82–98. [Original russian version in Entmologicheskoye Obozreniye 69 (4): 925–940 (1990)]

C. dravira male
Iran, Golestan

e.o. August 2013

C. dravira female

Iran, North Khorsan

e.o. July 2013

C. dravira male
Iran, Kuh i Mirabi, GP B. Alberti

Coll. Zoolog. Staatssammlung Munich

C. dravira male
Turkmenistan, Ashgabad

GP B. Alberti

Coll. Zoolog. Staatssammlung Munich

C. dravira Aedeagus
Iran, Kuh i Mirabi, GP B. Alberti

Coll. Zoolog. Staatssammlung Munich

C. dravira valva
„Schalkah“ (Shahkuh), GP B. Alberti

Coll. Zoolog. Staatssammlung Munich

C. dravira male

Iran, Nord-Khorsan

June 2013

C. dravira male

Iran, Nord-Khorsan

June 2013

C. dravira female

Iran, North Khorsan

e.o. July 2013

Male (Iran, Golestan, June 2013)

Last instar caterpillar (Iran, Golestan)

Studio photo Juni 2013

Pupa (Iran, Golestan)

Studio photo September 2013

Femala (Iran, Nord-Khorasan, June 2013)

e.o. (studio photo, July 2013)