Rock grayling
The rock grayling is a dark brown butterfly with a white band near the edge of its wings. At the tip of each front wing it has a big black eye spot. It likes sunny, rocky slopes and forest clearings.
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Fun facts
Underneath, its back wings are marbled brown and white with a wide white band.
Males and females look the same, which is not true for many butterflies.
It flies from June to September.
It has a bigger look-alike cousin called the woodland grayling, but the rock grayling's underside has stronger dark and light contrast.
Most asked questions about Rock grayling
?How big is a rock grayling?
Its wings measure about 27 to 34 millimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the rock grayling live?
In Europe, North Africa, Turkey and the Caucasus, on steep rocky slopes, in open forests and in shrubland.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hipparchia alcyone
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hipparchia hermione (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Notafly. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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