Biology:Pseudochazara beroe
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. beroe
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| Pseudochazara beroe (Herrich-Schaffer, [1844])
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Pseudochazara beroe is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from western Turkey across southern Transcaucasia and the Elburz Mountains to Kopet-Dagh.
Description in Seitz
S. beroe Frr. (43 g). Recalling pelopea in pattern, but the ground-colour much lighter, being glossy dust-grey, the distal band dull wax-yellow, with 2 rather large dark ocelli on the forewing. Costal margin and fringes of a whitish silky gloss. Hindwing beneath yellowish grey- brown, with a dirty white band beyond the middle. — In ab. rhena H.-Schiff. the band is more or less tinged with reddish yellow distally, and in ab. aurantiaca Stgr. (43 g, 44 a) the bands are entirely orange-yellow. — In Asia Minor, occurring more singly, from June till August. [1]
Flight period
The species is univoltine and on wing from mid-June to August.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
- Pseudochazara beroe beroe
- Pseudochazara aurantiaca (Staudinger, 1871) (Kopet-Dagh)
- Pseudochazara rhena (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852) (Armenian Highland)
References
- ↑ Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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External links
- Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara beroe
- The Butterflies Monitoring & Photography Society of Turkey
Wikidata ☰ Q13564405 entry
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