Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Chilades → species Chilades trochylus

Species name(s)

Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) = Lycaena trochylus Freyer, 1845 = Zizeeria trochilus = Freyeria trochilus = Freyeria trochylus = Freyeria trochylus trochylus. [9, 10]

Grass Jewel.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8438

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Greece, Crete, Turkey - The European part. [1].
Bulgaria ?, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands ?, Cyprus, Crete, North Aegean ?. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Andrachne telephioides, Heliotropium. [28].

Subspecies of Chilades trochylus

Freyeria trochylus formosanus Matsumura, 1929. [187]
C. t. grisea Aigner, 1906. [187]
C. t. minuscula Aurivillius, 1909. [9]
C. t. obscura Heydemann, 1954. [9]
C. t. obscura Heydemann, 1955. [187]
C. t. orientalis (Forster, 1980). [9]
C. t. persa Bytinsky-Salz, 1937. [9]
C. t. persa Bytinski-Salz, 1937. [187]
C. t. trochylus. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Ryan Brookes.

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
[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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org