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Black Hairstreak

Satyrium pruni

Checklist Number
61.007 [B&F: 1559]

Verification
Record will be accepted (subject to date and location checks)

Classification

Family:Lycaenidae
Subfamily:Theclinae
Genus:Satyrium
Species:pruni
Authority:(Linnaeus, 1758)

An endangered Red Data Book species, in scrubland and mature oak woodland; 200-300 m (200-700 m in Europe), on the clay between Peterborough and Oxford; mainland Europe and southern Scandinavia. Not recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight in recent years. Wingspan 37 mm. Larva feeds on Blackthorn.