Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)

Имаго Leptotes pirithous

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767) = Papilio pirithous Linnaeus, 1767 = Papilio telicanus Lang, 1789 = Syntarucus pirithous = Syntarucus pyrithous = telivanus (Lang) = Papilio baeticus Esper, 1784. [9, 10, 187]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky*.

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

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Имаго Leptotes pirithous

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia,North Aegean, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, ?, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of Russia: Western Caucasus (?). [3].

Subspecies of Leptotes pirithous

Leptotes pirithous atavica Verity, 1943. [187]
L. p. hoffmannsegii Zeller, 1850. [187]
L. p. infrapallida Verity, 1943. [187]
L. p. insulana Aurivillius, 1909. [187]
L. p. insulanus (Aurivillius, 1924). [9]
L. p. pirithous. [9]
L. p. semitetrica de Sagarra, 1927. [187]
L. p. tetrica De Sagarra, 1925. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vlad Proklov, Simon Coombes.

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)
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org