Pseudochazara geyeri

Pseudochazara geyeri
Galichica National Park
Republic of Macedonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species: P. geyeri
Binomial name
Pseudochazara geyeri
Synonyms
  • Satyrus geyeri Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]
  • Satyrus geyeri Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]

Pseudochazara geyeri, the Grey Asian grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, Macedonia, eastern Turkey and south-western Transcaucasia.

Flight period

The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

  • Pseudochazara geyeri geyeri
  • Pseudochazara geyeri karsicola Gross, 1978 (Armenian Highland)
  • Pseudochazara geyeri occidentalis (Rebel & Zerny, 1931) (Albania)

References

  1. "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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