Pseudochazara turkestana
Appearance
Pseudochazara turkestana | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. turkestana
|
Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara turkestana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)
| |
Synonyms | |
|
Pseudochazara turkestana is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Afghanistan through the mountains of Middle Asia to the south-west Altai.
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 turkestana turkestana Afghanistan
- Pseudochazara turkestana esquilinus (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Alay Mountains
- Pseudochazara turkestana sagina (Ruhl, [1894]) Tajikistan, Ghissar, southern Ghissar, Darvaz, the western Pamirs
- Pseudochazara turkestana tarbagata (Staudinger, 1901) Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur and Tarbagatai, Kazakhstan, the south-west Altai
References
[edit]- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms