Satyrium ledereri

Orange Banded Hairstreak
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Satyrium
Species: S. Ledereri
Binomial name
Satyrium ledereri
(Boisduval, 1848)

The Orange Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium ledereri) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Appearance, behaviour and distribution

The distribution of the Orange Banded Hairstreak in Europe includes Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Anatolia, and Palestine, and Greek island of Samos.[1]

Life cycle and foodplants

The butterflies are on wing from April to May, larval host plants are Atraphaxis daghestanica and A.spinosa.[2] Species gives one generation per year, the egg hibernates.

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