Phengaris nausithous (Bergstrasser, 1779)

Имаго Phengaris nausithous

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Phengaris nausithous (Bergstrasser, 1779) = Maculinea nausithous (Bergstrasser, 1779) = Papilio nausithous Bergsträsser, [1779] = Papilio arcas Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio nausithoe Bergsträsser, [1779] = erebus (Knoch, 1782) = Lycaena kijevensis Sheljuzhko, 1928. [3, 9, 10]

Dusky Large Blue.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8455

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

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Имаго Phengaris nausithous

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Maculinea nausithous. [3].

Distribution

Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Spain (mainland), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Trans-Baikal, Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Sanguisorba officinalis, indifferent to the caterpillars ants Myrmica rubra. [28].

Subspecies of Phengaris nausithous

Maculinea nausithous agenjoi Vilarrubia, 1950. [187]
P. n. argoviensis Beuret, 1964. [187]
P. n. clara Lempke, 1955. [187]
P. n. kijevensis Sheljuzhko, 1928. [187]
P. n. supraelongata Lempke, 1955. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Mario Maier, Andrey Bratzev.

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