Polyommatus daphnis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Polyommatus (Meleageria) daphnis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Lycaena meleager = Meleageria daphnis = Papilio daphnis [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio endymion [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio meleager Esper, 1778 = Polyommatus daphnis brandti Pfeiffer, 1938. [9, 10, 85]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

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.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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November

December

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Lycaena meleager; Meleageria daphnis. [85].

Distribution

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

Larva food plants / other food objects

Coronilla varia, indifferent to the caterpillars ants genera Lasius, Formica, Tapinoma. [28].

Subspecies of Polyommatus daphnis

Lycaena meleager alpium Verity, 1926. [187]
P. d. alpiumclara Verity, 1926. [187]
P. d. argentata Hartig, 1924. [187]
P. d. aucta Stauder, 1923. [187]
P. d. dalmatina Wagner, 1909. [187]
P. d. daphnis. [9]
P. d. elamita Le Cerf, 1913. [187]
P. d. elamita (Le Cerf, 1913). [9]
P. d. flacata Stauder, 1923. [187]
P. d. hayesi (Larsen, 1974). [9]
P. d. hemialpinum Verity, 1943. [187]
P. d. ignorata Staudinger, 1901. [187]
P. d. macra Verity, 1920. [187]
P. d. major Verity, 1946. [187]
P. d. marteniana De Sagarra, 1925. [187]
P. d. minor Verity, 1946. [187]
P. d. narsana Alberti, 1973. [187]
P. d. narsana (Alberti, 1973). [9]
P. d. pallidecolor Verity, 1946. [187]
P. d. semiargus Stauder, 1923. [187]
P. d. squalida Verity, 1920. [187]
P. d. steevenii Treitschke, 1834. [187]
P. d. superlunulata Verity, 1926. [187]
P. d. versicolor Rühl, 1895. [187]
P. d. versicolor (Heyne, [1895]). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Jan van Holten, Evgeny Komarov.

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