Plebejus pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Plebejus → subgenus Agriades → species Plebejus pyrenaica
Species name(s)
Plebejus (Agriades) pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840) = Plebejus pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) = Agriades pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) = Lycaena orbitulus pyrenaica Boisduval, 1840 = Agriades pyrenaica.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.
Flight time
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, France, Yugoslavia. [1]. Peter Khramov.
- Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, European Central Black Earth, the Western Caucasus. [3]. Peter Khramov.
- Spain (mainland), France (mainland). [10]. Peter Khramov.
Larva food plants
- Androsace villosa. [28]. Peter Khramov.
Subspecies Plebejus pyrenaica
- P. p. asturiensis (Oberthür, 1910).
- P. p. asturiensis Oberthür, 1910.
- P. p. ergane (Higgins, 1981).
- P. p. erzurumensis Eckweiler & Hesselbarth, 1978.
- P. p. hesselbarthi Nekrutenko, 1974.
- P. p. latedisjuncta Alberti, 1973.
- P. p. pyrenaicus.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Anatoliy Krupitskiy, Vitalij Dobronosov. Text data: Peter Khramov.
Main 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
- [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
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