Biology:Polyommatus artvinensis
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Polyommatus artvinensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. artvinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Polyommatus artvinensis (Carbonell, 1997)[1]
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Polyommatus artvinensis is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frédéric Carbonell in 1997. It is found in Turkey, where it is only known from the north-eastern Pontic chain, in the provinces of Erzurum and Artvin.
The length of the forewings is 13.5–16 mm. The upperside ground colour is purplish violet. The underside ground colour is warm greyish brown, without any or at most a vestigial blue-green basal suffusion.[2]
References
- ↑ "Polyommatus Latreille, 1804" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) artvinensis stat. nov. and P. (A.) sigberti sp. nov., two vicariant species known so far only from Turkey (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
Wikidata ☰ Q7226696 entry
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