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Adults. Small-headed. The eyes not white-rimmed. The head and antennae not rosy-tinged. Antennae reaching noticeably less than halfway to the wingtips. Having all 6 legs fully developed and operational for walking.
Forewings. Uppersides of the forewings without eye-spots.
Hindwings. Hindwings not tailed.
Wing venation. Forewings with basally dilated veins.
Hindwings without a praecostal spur.
Eggs, larvae, pupae. The larvae without bristly spines.
British representation. 1 species. Chazara briseis (Hermit).
Status in Britain. Adventive (a southern European species, with a very feeble claim to ‘British’ status).
Classification. Superfamily Papilionoidea. Satyridae.
Illustrations. • Chazara briseis (The Hermit). Chazara biseis (The Hermit): uppersides of male (left) and female. From Le Cerf & Herbulot (1950). • Chazara briseis (The Hermit): Hübner, 1805.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: butterflies. Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
