Biology:Pseudochazara thelephassa

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Pseudochazara thelephassa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. thelephassa
Binomial name
Pseudochazara thelephassa
(Geyer, [1827])
Synonyms
  • Eumenis thelephassa Geyer, [1827]

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

The species is univoltine and is on wing from April to July.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

References

  1. "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Wikidata ☰ Q7254632 entry