Rock grayling

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Wingspan

5.6 cm – 6.6 cmsrc for Wingspan

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

flowerssrc for Main food

Habitat

forest, grassland, rockysrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

On the wing

June to Augustsrc for On the wing

Generations a year

Onesrc for Generations a year

Larval food plants

Poaceae familysrc for Larval food plants

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderLepidoptera
5. familyNymphalidae
6. genusHipparchia
7. SpeciesHipparchia hermione Linnaeus, 1764

Synonyms Eumenis fagi genava, Hipparchia aelia, Hipparchia alcyone, Hipparchia alcyone alcyone, Hipparchia alcyone genava, Hipparchia alcyone norvegica, Hipparchia alcyone pyrenaea, Hipparchia alcyone vandalusica, Hipparchia elesyka, Hipparchia faronica, Hipparchia fuxiens, Hipparchia genava, Hipparchia graellsi, Hipparchia hermione alcyone, Hipparchia hermione norvegica, Hipparchia hermioneminor, Hipparchia heuseri, Hipparchia ibarrae, Hipparchia infumata, Hipparchia jurtina, Hipparchia latevittata, Hipparchia minor, Hipparchia multiocellata, Hipparchia murciana, Hipparchia nemorivaga, Hipparchia nigrogenava, Hipparchia noojos, Hipparchia norvegica, Hipparchia odilo, Hipparchia pardoi, Hipparchia pyrenaea, Hipparchia pyrenaica, Hipparchia remota, Hipparchia sogdiana, Hipparchia subalbida, Hipparchia thamyras, Hipparchia triocellata, Hipparchia vandalusica, Hipparchia vernetensis, Hipparchia vipsania, Hipparchia vivilo, Papilio aelia, Papilio alcyone, Papilio hermione, Satyrus alcyone, Satyrus alcyone, Satyrus alcyone pyrenaea, Satyrus alcyone vandalusica, Satyrus caeca, Satyrus hermione, Satyrus hermione alcyone, Satyrus pseudosemele

Catalogue of LifeTAXREFTAXREFWikidata

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• LepTraits 1.0: a globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
  Shirey, V., Larsen, E., Doherty, A. et al. (2022) LepTraits 1.0: a globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits. Scientific Data 9: 382. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01473-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19874602.v1
• TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
  Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844

@misc{rock_grayling_2026,
  title = {Rock grayling (Hipparchia hermione)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/rock-grayling},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}