Plebejus pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Plebejus → subgenus Agriades → species Plebejus pyrenaica
Species name(s)
Plebejus (Agriades) pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840) = Plebejus pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) = Agriades pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) = Lycaena orbitulus pyrenaica Boisduval, 1840 = Agriades pyrenaica. [3, 9, 10]
Gavarnie Blue.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.
Flight time
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
- Spain (mainland), France (mainland). [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, European Central Black Earth, the Western Caucasus. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
Subspecies of Plebejus pyrenaica
- Agriades pyrenaica asturiensis Oberthür, 1910. [187]
- P. p. asturiensis (Oberthür, 1910). [9]
- P. p. ergane (Higgins, 1981). [9]
- P. p. erzurumensis Eckweiler & Hesselbarth, 1978. [187]
- P. p. hesselbarthi Nekrutenko, 1974. [187]
- P. p. latedisjuncta Alberti, 1973. [187]
- P. p. pyrenaicus. [9]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Anatoliy Krupitskiy, Vitalij Dobronosov. 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
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