Tree grayling
The tree grayling is a brown butterfly that loves warm, dry and rocky places. When it sits with closed wings on a stone, its marbled underside makes it hard to see. It has black eyespots on its wings.
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Fun facts
It likes to rest on rocky ground with its wings closed, warming up in the sun.
The male is dull brown on top, and the female is lighter or ochre.
Its caterpillars are greenish beige with green-brown stripes.
Adults fly from June to October, and there is one family of young a year.
Most asked questions about Tree grayling
?Where does the tree grayling live?
In Central and Southern Europe, North Africa and nearby Asia, in dry, rocky and grassy places.
?How big is the tree grayling?
Its wings measure about 60 to 68 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hipparchia statilinus
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1766
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hipparchia statilinus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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