Neolycaena rhymnus
| Neolycaena rhymnus | |
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| Neolycaena rhymnus in Seitz | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Neolycaena |
| Species: | N. rhymnus |
| Binomial name | |
| Neolycaena rhymnus (Eversmann, 1832) | |
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Neolycaena rhymnus is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Ukraine and southern and central Russia to the southern Ural mountains, Zauralye, the western and southern Altai Region, the Sayan mountains and Kazakhstan.
Adults are on wing from late May to mid June. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Caragana frutex.
Subspecies
- Neolycaena rhymnus rhymnus
- Neolycaena rhymnus betpakdalensis (western Kazakhstan)
- Neolycaena rhymnus rufina (Katutau Mountains, Dzhungarsky Alatau, south-eastern Kazakhstan)
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