Pseudochazara mamurra
Appearance
Buff Asian grayling | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. mamurra
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Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara mamurra (Herrich-Schäffer 1852)
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Synonyms | |
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Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, and Turkey. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys.
It is a very variable species.
Flight period
[edit]The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.
Food plants
[edit]Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
[edit]- Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra (Turkey)
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone Brown, 1976 - Brown's grayling (Greece and Albania)
- Pseudochazara mamurra birgit Gross, 1978 (Turkey)
Pseudochazara mamurra amymone is alternatively treated as a full species.
Gallery
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Pseudochazara mamurra amymone
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Pseudochazara mamurra amymone upperside and underside
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Pseudochazara mamurra amymone variation
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Pseudochazara mamurra amymone mating
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Pseudochazara mamurra amymone caught by a crab spider
References
[edit]- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms