| Polyommatus erotides | |
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| Polyommatus erotides in Seitz 80 d | |
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| Species: | P. erotides |
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| 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
References
- ↑ Staudinger, 1892 Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 5 (2) : 300-393
- ↑ 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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