Endangered
Karpathos Grayling
Hipparchia christenseni
The Karpathoshei butterfly only occurs on the Greek island of Karpathos.
The brush-footed butterfly
Brush-footed butterflies hold the first pair of legs reduced. The family includes fritillaries, admirals, and crows.
Moths and butterflies have scaled wings and a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. Most named species are known from a handful of specimens and a type locality.
Range and habitat
The Karpathoshei butterfly only occurs on the Greek island of Karpathos. The habitat is on rocky slopes with thickets and in clearings in coniferous forest.
GBIF currently lists 50 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Karpathos Grayling is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Dutch Wikipedia article on Karpathosheivlinder, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q2449650 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
