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Lycaena candens (Herrich-Schaffer, 1844)

Самец Lycaena candens

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Lycaeninae → tribe Lycaenini → genus Lycaena → species Lycaena candens

Species name(s)

Lycaena candens (Herrich-Schaffer, 1844) = Polyommatus candens Herrich-Schäffer, [1844] = Heodes candens. [9, 10]

Balkan Copper.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8415

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Имаго Lycaena candens

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Albania, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Rumex of the acetosa group. [28].

Subspecies of Lycaena candens

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Boris Stradomsky.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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