#3043 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Southern Grizzled Skipper

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke aardbeivlinder ·Pyrgus malvoides

NTnear threatened 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Pyrgus malvoides , the southern grizzled skipper , is a species of skipper (family Hesperiidae). The southern grizzled skipper is also very closely related to the grizzled skipper and has not been separated by significant isolation reproductive barriers. It is found from central France, southern Switzerland and Austria, south to Spain, Portugal and Italy. It is found up to heights of 2,500 meters.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,555iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).