UK Butterflies
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Checklist Number
57.0011
A male and female were captured in Surrey in June 1923. It is generally believed that they were accidentally introduced since this species is not migratory.
This species was first defined in Esper (1780) as shown here and as shown in this plate (type locality: Germany).
| Family: | Hesperiidae | Latreille, 1809 |
| Subfamily: | Pyrginae | Burmeister, 1878 |
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| Genus: | Carcharodus | Hübner, [1819] |
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| Species: | alceae | (Esper, 1780) |
