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Northern Grizzled Skipper

Pyrgus centaureae

Classification

Class
Insecta

The northern grizzled skipper (Pyrgus centaureae) is a Holarctic species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae) with a range in North America from the subarctic to the north, New Mexico to the south, and the Appalachian Mountains to the east. In the Palearctic the species which was described from Norway is distributed across Scandinavia and the northern part of European Russia across the Urals through northern Asia to the Altai. Description While generally similar to most other Pyrgus species, this species has a greyer brown background colour with bold white spots on both the forewing…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 1