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Satyrium ledereri, the orange banded hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
| Orange banded hairstreak | |
|---|---|
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| S. ledereri in Seitz | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Satyrium |
| Species: | S. ledereri |
| Binomial name | |
| Satyrium ledereri (Boisduval, 1848) | |
T. ledereri Bsd. (73 e). Tailed or tailless, with long fringes and the anal angle of the hindwing somewhat pointed. Upperside blackish brown, the basal area glossy grey on both wings; in the anal area of the hindwing an obsolescent russet-brown macular halfband. Underside light grey, the base dusted with light blue; both wings with a row of exteriorly white-edged black ocelli, outside which there are black submarginal spots on the forewing and a double row of dots on the hindwing with red spots between the two rows. — In Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Transcaspia and Armenia, in May.[1]
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The distribution of the orange banded hairstreak in Europe includes Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Anatolia, Palestine, and the Greek island of Samos.[2]
The butterflies are on wing from April to May. Larval host plants are Atraphaxis daghestanica and A. spinosa.[3] The species has one generation per year; the egg hibernates.
The name honours Julius Lederer
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