Pseudophilotes vicrama (Moore, 1865)

Самец Pseudophilotes vicrama

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Pseudophilotes → species Pseudophilotes vicrama

Species name(s)

Pseudophilotes vicrama (Moore, 1865) = Polyommatus vicrama Moore, 1865 = Turana baton anteschiffermulleri Verity, 1936 = Scolitantides vicrama. [9, 10]

Eastern Baton Blue.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Italy, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Crete, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, North Aegean, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, Croatia, Cycladic Islands, Czech Republic, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Urals. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Thymus, Saturja, indifferent to the caterpillars ants. [28].

Subspecies of Pseudophilotes vicrama

Pseudophilotes vicrama astabene (Hemming, 1932). [9]
P. v. clara (Christoph, 1887). [9]
P. v. pallida (Shchetkin, 1960). [9]
P. v. schiffermuelleri (Hemming, 1929). [10]
P. v. schiffermulleri (Hemming, 1929). [9]
P. v. vicrama. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012