Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Theclinae → tribe Tomarini → genus Tomares → species Tomares mauretanicus

Species name(s)

Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) = Polyommatus mauretanicus Lucas, 1849 = Tomares mauretanicus antonius Brevignon, 1985 = Tomares mauritanicus. [9, 28]

Moroccan Hairstreak.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:23628

Detailed information with references

Larva food plants / other food objects

Astragalus, Hippocrepis, Hedysarum. [28].

Subspecies of Tomares mauretanicus

Tomares mauretanicus amelnorum. [9]
T. m. maroccanus Zopp, 1954. [187]
T. m. subtusconfluens Zopp, 1954. [187]
T. m. subtusreductus Zopp, 1954. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org

Comments

Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments

Tomares mauretanicus photos

There are no photos of this species on the website yet. You can offer your photo by logging into your account

Other species Tomares

Tomares ballus (Fabricius, 1787)

Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848)

Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980

Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874)

Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schaffer, 1851)

Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882)

Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000

Insecta.pro: international entomological community. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor in chief and administrator: Peter Khramov.

Curators: Konstantin Efetov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Evgeny Komarov, Stan Korb, Alexander Zhakov.

Moderators: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Evgeny Komarov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Alexandr Zhakov.

Thanks to all authors, who publish materials on the website.

Species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion, flight time, etc..

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Few themed publications and a living blog.