Photo #28254: Phengaris kurentzovi

Female

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Base gallery. Lateral/Underside. Alive insect.

Photo, and identified by: Irina Nikulina. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2009-08-16 17:00:00, Russia, Primorskiy Krai, Shkotovskiy distr., Anisimovka

Comments on this image

01.11.2016 13:24, Irina Nikulina

Since there are 2 photos with my definition on the site, I think it is necessary to explain why out of 5 local species of Phengaris I identified it as kurentzovi. 2 species - arionides and cyanecula - fall off immediately, completely different underside, in kurentzovi and teleius they are about the same distance from the root. It turns out that the choice is between the latter.
Illustrations:
http://szmn.sbras.ru/picts/butterfly/Lycaenidae/Maculinea_kurentzovi.htm#kurentzoviargentif (for Primorye Maculinea kurentzovi kurentzovi)
http://www.nabistory.co.kr/nabi-htm/254.htm and a very good drawing for Phengaris kurentzovi in the article
by S.Y. Gordeev, A.V. Filippov. New findings of diurnal Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera, Diurna) on the territory of Western Transbaikalia. (Bulletin of the Buryat State University.Issue # 4-1 / 2014)