Biology:Polyommatus erotides

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Polyommatus erotides
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Polyommatus erotides in Seitz 80 d
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P. erotides
Binomial name
Polyommatus erotides
(Staudinger, 1892) [1]

Polyommatus erotides is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Saur, Altai, Siberia , Transbaikalia, Mongolia) that belongs to the blues family.

Taxonomy

Formerly a subspecies of Polyommatus eros.

Description from Seitz

erotides Stgr. (80 d), from the mountains of Southern Siberia, is a large, blue-green male form, with broad black distal margin to the forewing, into which the deep black veins merge.[2]

Biology

The larva feeds on Fabaceae.

See also

  • List of butterflies of Russia

References

  1. Staudinger, 1892 Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 5 (2) : 300-393
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q18001883 entry