Hipparchia maderensis

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image = Hipparchiamaderensis.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=van Swaay, C. |author2=Wynhoff, I. |author3=Verovnik, R. |author4=Wiemers, M. |author5=López Munguira, M. |author6=Maes, D. |author7=Sasic, M. |author8=Verstrael, T. |author9=Warren, M. |author10=Settele, J. |date=2010 |title=Hipparchia maderensis |volume=2010 |page=e.T39494A10234051 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T39494A10234051.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Hipparchia maderensis

| authority = (Bethune-Baker, 1891)

| synonyms =

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Hipparchia maderensis, the Madeiran grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/hipparchia/ "Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms It is endemic to Madeira. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Seitz treats it as a race of Hipparchia semele - in maderensis Baker, from Madeira the upperside in both sexes is strongly obscured and in the male almost without any markings.Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren){{PD-notice}}