Agriades orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Agriades → subgenus Albulina → species Agriades orbitulus

Species name(s)

Agriades (Albulina) orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798) = Albulina orbitulus = Albulina orbitula = Papilio orbitulus de Prunner, 1798 = Papilio atys Hübner, [1803-1804] = Plebeius orbitulus = Agriades orbitulus. [3, 9, 10, 85]

Alpine Blue.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#2. Kolsky*; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Albulina orbitulus; Albulina orbitula. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Liechtenstein, Norway (mainland), Russia, Slovenia, France (mainland), Switzerland, Sweden. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Gorno-Altai, Transbaikalia, Kola (?), Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Amur, Mid-Ural, Tuva, Southern Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Astragalus alpinus. [28].

Subspecies of Agriades orbitulus

Plebejus orbitulus arcaseia Fruhstorfer, 1916. [187]
A. o. armathea Fruhstorfer, 1916. [187]
A. o. artenita Fruhstorfer, 1916. [187]
A. o. caeca Courvoisier, 1911. [187]
A. o. demulaensis Huang, 2001. [9]
A. o. dongdalaensis Huang, 2001. [9]
A. o. litangensis Huang, 2001. [9]
A. o. lobbichleri Forster, 1961. [9]
A. o. luxurians (Forster, 1940). [9]
A. o. major (Evans, 1915). [9]
A. o. orbitulus. [9]
A. o. pheretimus (Staudinger, 1892). [9]
A. o. qinlingensis Wang, 1998. [9]
A. o. sajana Rühl, 1895. [9]
A. o. shanxiensis Murayama, 1983. [9]
A. o. sikkima Bath, 1900. [187]
A. o. tatsienluica (Oberthür, 1910). [9]
A. o. tyrone (Forster, 1940). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svyatoslav Knyazev.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org