Phengaris teleius (Bergstrasser, 1779)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Phengaris teleius (Bergstrasser, 1779) = Maculinea teleius (Bergstrasser, 1779) = Papilio teleius Bergsträsser, [1779] = Papilio diomedes Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio telegonus Bergsträsser, [1779] = Papilio euphemus Hübner, 1800 = Maculinea telejus = Maculinea teleia. [3, 9, 10]

Scarce Large Blue.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky*; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

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

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Maculinea teleius. [3].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Middle-Volga, Urals Average, Tuva (?), The South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Habitat: South Central Europe, east extended up to Japan. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Fore wing length up to 2 cm, so this is one of the largest European butterflies blues. For a species characterized by a wide dark border and a few dark spots on it, and in females it is still larger than the males, but the latter point is darker. [5].

General info about Imago

Maculinea teleius indifferent to wet meadows. [5].

Imago lifespan

From late June to mid-August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Sanguisorba officinalis, indifferent to the caterpillars ants Myrmica scabrinodis. [28].
Burnet. [5].

Larva lifespan

The caterpillar lives from the summer until the spring of next year, overwinters in the anthill. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Phengaris teleius

Maculinea teleius chosensis (Matsumura, 1927). [9]
P. t. discoobsoleta Beuret, 1958. [187]
P. t. euphemia (Staudinger, 1887). [9]
P. t. hosonoi Takahashi, 1973. [187]
P. t. infracrassipuncta Lempke, 1955. [187]
P. t. infrapaucipuncta Lempke, 1955. [187]
P. t. macromelanica Verity, 1946. [187]
P. t. marginereducta. [187]
P. t. matsumurai Shirôzu, 1953. [187]
P. t. melancholica Bryk, 1946. [187]
P. t. obscurata (Staudinger, 1892). [9]
P. t. sinalcon Murayama, 1992. [9]
P. t. splendens (Kozhantshikov, 1924). [9]
P. t. teleius. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Yuriy Karpov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org