Carcharodus orientalis

Carcharodus orientalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Carcharodus
Species: C. orientalis
Binomial name
Carcharodus orientalis
Reverdin, 1913

The Oriental Skipper (Carcharodus orientalis) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, east to Asia Minor, northern Iran, Ukraine, the Caucasus to Kazachstan and Turkmenistan. There is a disjoint population in northern Hungary. In the south it is also found in Wadi Al Hisha (Jordan) and Israel.

The length of the forewings is 14–15 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August in two generations.

Subspecies

There are at least three subspecies:

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