(Linnaeus, 1767)
Striped Grayling
Description:
The Striped Grayling occurs mostly on dry, rocky slopes with bushes and grassy vegetation, and in light woodland. The butterflies often rest on the ground or on tree trunks.
Food plants are various grasses, such as Bermuda-grass (Cynodon dactylon), Cock's-foot (Dactylus glomerata), meadow-grasses (Poa spp.), and false-bromes (Brachypodium spp.).
This butterfly is single-brooded and hibernates as a caterpillar or chrysalis, on or just in the ground.
Habitat:
Evergreen woodland
Dry calcareous grasslands
Heath and shrub
Sclerophyllous scrub
Similar species:
Unmistakable