British Insects: Butterflies
British Insects: Butterflies |
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Adults. Antennae reaching noticeably less than halfway to the wingtips.
Wing venation. Forewings with basally dilated veins.
Eggs, larvae, pupae. The larvae without bristly spines.
British representation. 1 species. Chazara briseis (Hermit).
Status in Britain. Adventive (a southern European species, with a very feeble claim to ‘British’ status).
Classification. Superfamily Papilionoidea. Satyridae.
Illustrations. • Chazara briseis.
To view the illustrations with detailed captions, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. British insects: butterflies. Version: 18th September 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.
