Polyommatus thersites (Cantener, 1835)

Имаго (Polyommatus thersites)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Polyommatus (Polyommatus) thersites (Cantener, 1835) = Plebecula thersites = Argus alexis thersites Cantener, 1834 = alexius (Freyer, [1858]) = gravesi (Chapman, 1912) = Agriades thersites meridiana Verity, 1919 = Agriades thersites centro Chapman, 1913 = Plebicula thersites = Agrodiaetus thersites. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#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; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Plebecula thersites. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, North Aegean , Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine,France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Onobrychis viciifolia, Onobrychis caput-galli, Onobrychis peduncularis, indifferent to the caterpillars ants genera Myrmica, Tapinoma, Lasius. [28].

Subspecies of Polyommatus thersites

Plebicula thersites anticoglomerata Cabeau, 1931. [187]
P. t. ardavdana Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. centro Chapman, 1912. [187]
P. t. ferdinandi de Sagarra, 1927. [187]
P. t. gandzhana Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. hypanica Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. interjecta Verity, 1919. [187]
P. t. josephina de Sagarra, 1924. [187]
P. t. karatschaica Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. ketshevana Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. meridiana Verity, 1919. [187]
P. t. microrientalis Verity, 1935. [187]
P. t. narzana Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. orientis (Sheljuzhko, 1928). [9]
P. t. orientis Sheljuzhko, 1928. [187]
P. t. pergrata Szabó, 1956. [187]
P. t. posttheristes Verity, 1934. [187]
P. t. pseudomicrorientalis Verity, 1935. [187]
P. t. rjabovi Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. sheljuzhkoiana Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
P. t. thersites. [9]
P. t. zhicharevi Obraztsov, 1936. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Mario Maier, Viktor Kolesnikov.

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