'' Muschampia gigas'' is a small
butterfly found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(East China - Amurland.) that belongs to the
skippers family.
Description from Seitz
H. gigas Brem. (85 f). Upperside of the wings blackish grey. Size considerable, 48 to 50 mm. Ground of wings black. The white spots small. Female black, with the spots small and but little numerous. The hindwing black, ab. ''minor'' ab. nov. has only the size of ''tessellum'' and all the spots well developed. From Amurland.
[Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)]
See also
*
List of butterflies of Russia
References
gigas Gigas may refer to:
* Gigas, one of the Gigantes (Giants) in Greek mythology
* Gigas (company), a Spanish cloud services company
* ''Codex Gigas'', a medieval manuscript
* gigue or giga, a dance
See also
* A. gigas (disambiguation)
* D. gigas
* E. ...
Butterflies described in 1864
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