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Polyommatus daphnis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Самка  Polyommatus daphnis

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Polyommatus (Meleageria) daphnis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) = Lycaena meleager = Meleageria daphnis = Papilio daphnis [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio endymion [Schiffermüller], 1775 = Papilio meleager Esper, 1778 = Polyommatus daphnis brandti Pfeiffer, 1938. [9, 10, 85]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8499

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Самка  Polyommatus daphnis

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

  • Lycaena meleager; Meleageria daphnis. [85].

Distribution

  • Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic,Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Coronilla varia, indifferent to the caterpillars ants genera Lasius, Formica, Tapinoma. [28].

Subspecies of Polyommatus daphnis

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Jan van Holten, Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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