Plebejus eurypilus (Freyer, 1851)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Plebejus → subgenus Kretania → species Plebejus eurypilus
Species name(s)
Plebejus (Kretania) eurypilus (Freyer, 1851) = Plebejus carmon (Gerhard, [1851]) = Lycaena carmon Gerhard, [1851] = Lycaena eurypilus Freyer, 1852 = Kretania eurypilus = Polyommatus eurypilus = Plebeius (Kretania) carmon = Plebeius eurypilus. [3, 9, 10]
Eastern Brown Argus.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8463
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#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
- Greece. [1].
- Greece (mainland). [10].
- Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Astracantha rumelica (= Astragalus creticus rumelicus). [28].
Subspecies of Plebejus eurypilus
- Plebejus carmon carmon. [9]
- P. e. euaemon (Hemming, 1931). [9]
- P. e. pelopides (van der Poorten, 1984). [9]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
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
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
Plebejus eurypilus photos
There are no photos of this species on the website yet. You can offer your photo by logging into your account
Other species Plebejus