Polyommatus amandus (Schneider, 1792)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Polyommatus (Polyommatus) amandus (Schneider, 1792) = Papilio amandus Schneider, 1792 = Papilio icarius Esper, 1789 = Lycaena icarius libisonis Fruhstorfer, 1911 = Agriades amdandus bruttia Verity, 1921 = Polyommatus icarius = Plebicula amanda = Agrodiaetus amandus = Polyommatus amanda = Papilio icarius Esper, 1793 = Plebejus amanda Schneid, 1792. [9, 10, 187]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 9.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Orange, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway ( mainland), Poland, Russia, Romania, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia,Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, North Urals, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Vicia, caterpillars to ants partial birth Tapinoma, Lasius, Myrmica, Formica. [28].

Subspecies of Polyommatus amandus

Polyommatus amandus abdelaziz (Blachier, 1908). [9]
P. a. abdelaziz Blachier, 1908. [10]
P. a. achaiana Brown, 1977. [10]
P. a. amandus. [9]
P. a. amata (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890). [9]
P. a. amata Grose-Smith, 1890. [10]
P. a. amurensis (Staudinger, 1892). [9]
P. a. amurensis Staudinger, 1892. [10]
P. a. andreas Dannehl, 1925. [10]
P. a. anthea Hemming, 1932. [10]
P. a. apenninogenita Verity, 1921. [10]
P. a. brenda Hemming, 1932. [9]
P. a. brenda Hemming, 1932. [10]
P. a. brunhilda Hemming, 1932. [9]
P. a. brunhilda Hemming, 1932. [10]
P. a. bruttia Verity, 1921. [10]
P. a. gina Higgins, 1958. [10]
P. a. hispelis Fruhstorfer, 1910. [10]
P. a. isias Fruhstorfer, 1910. [10]
P. a. libisonis Fruhstorfer, 1911. [10]
P. a. ludovicana Betti, 1977. [10]
P. a. lydia Krulikovski, 1892. [10]
P. a. orientalis Staudinger, 1901. [10]
P. a. pyrenaeorum Verity, 1951. [10]
P. a. splendida Rostagno & Zapelloni, 1910. [10]
P. a. tova Higgins, 1948. [10]
P. a. turensis (Heyne, 1895). [9]
P. a. turensis Rühl, 1895. [10]
P. a. villarrubiai Agenjo, 1970. [10]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Alexsandr Martukov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org