Spialia osthelderi, Osthelder's skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Asia Minor, the Middle East to Lebanon and through Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan.[2] The habitat consists of dry stream beds and stony slopes in mountainous areas up to altitudes of 2,600 meters.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Spialia |
| Species: | S. osthelderi
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Adults are on wing from April to May, probably in two generations per year.
Subspecies edit
- Spialia osthelderi osthelderi (Asia Minor to the Middle East, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, western Iran)
- Spialia osthelderi gecko Evans, 1949 (Kopet-Dagh and Iran to Afghanistan, Sussamyr Mountains)
References edit
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Wikispecies has information related to Spialia osthelderi.
- ^ Spialia, funet.fi
- ^ Russian Insects
External links edit
- AdaMerOs - Butterflies of Turkey
- Systematics and evolution of the Palaearctic Spialia species (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)
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