Thymelicus sylvatica

Thymelicus sylvatica is an eastern Palearctic butterfly in the Hesperiidae (Hesperiinae). The species can be found in Amur, Ussuri, Southwest China, Korea, and Japan.

Thymelicus sylvatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Thymelicus
Species:
T. sylvatica
Binomial name
Thymelicus sylvatica
(Bremer , 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pamphila sylvatica Bremer, 1861
  • Adopaea astigmata Leech, 1894
  • Adopaea occidentalis Leech, 1894
  • Adopaea teneprosa Leech, 1894

The larva feeds on Calamagrostis, Bromus, Agropyron, Brachypodium, Carex.

Subspecies
  • T. s. sylvatica
  • T. s. astigmatus (Leech, 1894) (Chang Yang)
  • T. s. teneprosus (Leech, 1894)
  • T. s. occidentalis (Leech, 1894) (Ta Chien Lou)
  • T. s. nishimurai Hamada et Fujioka, 1997

References
  1. Thymelicus , funet.fi


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