Pseudochazara thelephassa
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. thelephassa
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Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara thelephassa (Geyer, [1827])
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Synonyms | |
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Pseudochazara thelephassa, the Baluchi rockbrown, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is found in Turkey (Adana, Adıyaman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Hatay, İzmir, Kars, Malatya, Kahramanmaraş, Mardin, Nevşehir, Siirt, Tunceli, Urfa, Şırnak, Iğdır) to Asia Minor across Iran, Iraq, Transcaucasia and Kopet-Dagh to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Flight period
[edit]The species is univoltine and is on wing from April to July.
Food plants
[edit]Larvae feed on grasses.
References
[edit]- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms