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Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793) = Hesperia theophrastus Fabricius, 1793 = Lycaena nara Kollar, 1848. [9, 10, 187]

Common Tiger Blue.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8519

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Spain, Sicily. [1].
Spain (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Ziziphus lotus, Ziziphus jujuba, Paliurus spina-christi. [28].

Subspecies of Tarucus theophrastus

Tarucus theophrastus indica Evans, 1932. [187]

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
[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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