Polyommatus damocles (Herrich-Schaffer, 1844)

Самец Polyommatus damocles

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Polyommatus → subgenus Agrodiaetus → species Polyommatus damocles

Species name(s)

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

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Самец Polyommatus damocles

Detailed information with references

Distribution

USSR - the European part. [1].
Russia Ukraine. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Subspecies of Polyommatus damocles

Polyommatus damocles damocles. [9]
P. d. kanduli (Dantchenko & Lukhtanov, 2002). [9]
P. d. krymaeus (Sheljuzhko, 1928). [9]
P. d. rossicus (Dantchenko & Lukhtanov, 1993). [9]
P. d. tortumensis (Carbonell, 2003). [9]
P. d. urartua (Carbonell, 2003). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Boris Stradomsky.

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)

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24.06.2009 6:56, Boris Stradomsky

Description. Length of front wing 14-17 mm. The male on top of the wings of blue, shiny, with fine dark boundary line (0.5 mm); a female - brown. Apex front wings pointed. Underneath the wings of the male light gray in the back wing of the blue pretornal spraying is not developed; a female - light brown. Marginal drawing underside is very weak.On the rear fenders along the veins M3 bright clear a narrow white bar (from ssp. Rossicus (Dantchenko et Lukhtanov, 1993) is absent).
The length of the valve is 2.2-2.5 mm.
Haploid - 24-26 chromosomes.
Biology. Steppe grasslands, rocky steppes. Years of adults: end of June to August in one generation. Forage plants caterpillars: Hedisarum spp. Caterpillar overwinters.
Subspecies. Southern Urals: P. damocles damocles (Herrich-Schäffer, 1844); River basin. Volga: P.damocles rossicus (Dantchenko et Lukhtanov, 1993).
Related and similar species. P. damone: apex rounded front wings, blue pretornal pollination in the underside of the rear wings clear; P. ciscaucasicus: upper wings male blue-violet; P. damon: top male wing teal; P. ripartii: top male brown wings.