Polyommatus loewii

Large jewel blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species: Polyommatus loewii
Binomial name
Polyommatus loewii
(Zeller, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Albulina loewii (Zeller, 1847)
  • Lycaena loewii Zeller, 1847
  • Polyommatus (Albulina) loewii
  • Polyommatus loewii
  • Albulina empyrea (Freyer, [1851])
  • Lycaena loewi var. gigas Staudinger, 1871
  • Albulina robusta (Turati & Fiori, 1930)
  • Lycaena löwii germaniciae Pfeiffer, 1932
  • Albulina minimus (Junge & Rose, 1978)
  • Polyommatus loewii afghana Howarth & Povolny, 1976
  • Polyommatus loewii antilibanotica Hemming, 1929
  • Lampides uranicola Walker, 1870
  • Polyommatus loewi lockharti Hemming, 1929
  • Lampides ferrana Walker, 1870
  • Lycaena hissarica Shchetkin, 1963

Polyommatus loewii, the large jewel blue,[2][3] is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly.

Range

Northeast Africa, Aegean Islands, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Russia (Central Caucasus), Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan[4][5]

Subspecies

  • P. l. loewii (Armenia: highland)
  • P. l. afghana (Howarth & Povolny, 1976) (Afghanistan)
  • P. l. antilibanotica (Hemming, 1929)
  • P. l. dzhemagati (Sheljuzhko, 1934) (Caucasus Major)
  • P. l. hissarica (Shchetkin, 1963) (Ghissar)
  • P. l. laura (Evans, 1932)
  • P. l. schwingenschussi (Pfeiffer, 1937) (Talysh Mountains)
  • P. l. uranicola (Walker, 1870) (Jordan, Egypt, the Sinai, the Negev, central Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman)

Ecology

This species lives very locally on dry stony meadows and other xerophytic biotopes or subalpine meadows. One generation per year. Flight time in June - early August. Female are much less common than males and practically do not leave their habitats. After mating, the female lays one egg each on the stems and leaves of the forage plants of caterpillars - Astragalus spp. Egg discoid, with pronounced cells on the surface. Its color is white with a greenish tinge, the micropyle is green. Eggs hibernate with the already formed caterpillar inside. Caterpillars of the first age are yellowish-green with dark dots and a brownish-black head. They eat up the parenchyma of the leaves, scrape off the juicy inner parts of the stipules, but especially prefer to penetrate into the young buds and eat in them. Caterpillars of the senior, the fifth, age are bright green with a black head. They feed on buds and flowers. By the end of their development, they sometimes acquire a reddish hue. Puppies in shelters - under the bushes of a forage plant or in cracks in the soil, attaching to the substrate a spider's loop. The length of the pupa is 11-12 mm. It is elongated, light green with a dark green dorsal stripe and white spiracles, covered with very short white hairs. The pupa stage is 12-15 days[6]

Cited references

  1. ↑ Polyommatus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. ↑ Polyommatus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  3. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyommatus loewii". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Львовский А. Л., Моргун Д. В. Определители по флоре и фауне России. Выпуск 8 // Булавоусые чешуекрылые Восточной Европы. — М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2007. — 443 с. — 2000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-87317-362-4
  5. ↑ Сочивко А.В., Каабак Л.В. Определитель бабочек России. Дневные бабочки. — М.: Аванта+, 2012. — 320 с. — 5000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-98986-669-4
  6. ↑ СТРАДОМСКИЙ, Б. В. (2017): Стадии развития Plebejidea loewii (Zeller, 1847) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) [STRADOMSKY, B. V. (2017): The developmental stages of Plebejidea loewii(Zeller, 1847) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)]. — Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень 13 (1): 125-126

References

  • Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  • "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".



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