Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper

Pyrgus armoricanus

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Val d'Aran, July 2007

France, August 2008

France, August 2008

Val d'Aran, July 2008

I shall post more of this species soon. I have seen it commonly in the Val d'Aran, in Spain, and more recently in France. For some reason I had no pictures of it here.

The species is easy enough to identify once you have experience and expect it, having a characteristically bright upperside and underside, with light veins on the underside. It is sometimes abundant in southern regions.