Polyommatus coridon
Taxonomy
class Insecta
Species name(s)
Polyommatus (Lysandra) coridon (Poda, 1761) = Lysandra coridon = Papilio coridon Poda, 1761 = Meleageria coridon = Meleageria phillipi = Polyommatus philipi Brown & Coutsis, 1978.
Chalk-hill Blue.
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 2.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny*; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.
* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.
Forewing length
16—18 mm.
Primary colors
Orange, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black, White.
Flight time
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Larva lifespan
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Detailed information with references
Synonyms and combinations
Distribution
Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species
General info about Imago
Imago lifespan
General info about Larva
Larva food plants / other food objects
Larva lifespan
Pupa
Overwintering stage
Subspecies of Polyommatus coridon
- Lysandra coridon alpiumfusca Verity, 1926.
- P. c. alpiumpallida Verity, 1926.
- P. c. altica Neust..
- P. c. apenninus Zeller, 1847.
- P. c. apuana Verity, 1915.
- P. c. asturiensis Sagarra, 1922.
- P. c. bellargus Aigner, 1906.
- P. c. berber Le Cerf, 1932.
- P. c. blanca Ribbe, 1910.
- P. c. borussia (Dadd, 1908).
- P. c. caeruleossmar Verity, 1939.
- P. c. calaethys Jermyns, 1827.
- P. c. cinnus Gerhard, 1853.
- P. c. constanti Blachier, 1912.
- P. c. coridon (Poda, 1761).
- P. c. damon Aigner, 1906.
- P. c. diniae Verity, 1926.
- P. c. erilda Hemming.
- P. c. fowleri South, 1900.
- P. c. fumosa Verity, 1926.
- P. c. galliae Verity, 1926.
- P. c. gennargenti (Leigheb, 1987).
- P. c. germanella Verity, 1926.
- P. c. graeca Ruhl-Heyne, 1895.
- P. c. hispanagallica Verity, 1926.
- P. c. insulana Verity, 1926.
- P. c. italagallica Verity, 1926.
- P. c. jachontovi Wnukowsky, 1934.
- P. c. jurae Verity, 1926.
- P. c. margarita Ribbe, 1910.
- P. c. minor Cruttwell, 1902.
- P. c. minutepunctata Verity, 1926.
- P. c. morena Ribbe, 1910.
- P. c. narbonensis Verity, 1926.
- P. c. nicaeensis Dujardin, 1947.
- P. c. nigrescens Verity, 1943.
- P. c. nufrellensis (Schurian, 1977).
- P. c. nufrellensis Schurian, 1977.
- P. c. ossmar Gerhard, 1853.
- P. c. parisienis Gerhard, 1853.
- P. c. rufoclarens Verity, 1926.
- P. c. rufosplendens Verity, 1926.
- P. c. sibyllina Verity, 1916.
- P. c. sokolowskii Wojtusiak & Niesiolowski, 1947.
- P. c. stefanellii Verity, 1904.
- P. c. superappennina Verity, 1916.
- P. c. syngrapha Keferstein, 1851.
- P. c. tiphys Esper, 1780.
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
- [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
- [85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
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