Pseudochazara hippolyte
| Pseudochazara hippolyte | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. hippolyte |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara hippolyte (Esper, [1784]) | |
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Pseudochazara hippolyte is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined from the southern Urals across Kazakhstan and northern Tian-Shan to Transbaikalia, Mongolia and northern Tibet.
- A similar species, formerly regarded as a subspecies of Pseudochazara hippolyte, but endemic from south of Spain, is Pseudochazara williamsi.
Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from July to August.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
- Pseudochazara hippolyte hippolyte
- Pseudochazara hippolyte doerriesi southern Siberia (Tuva region)
- Pseudochazara hippolyte mercurius (Staudinger, 1887) northern Tian Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur and Tarbagatai
References
- ↑ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Gil-T., F. (2017): Compared morphology and distribution of the taxa described of Pseudochazara williamsi (Romei, 1927) [= "Pseudochazara hippolyte" Esper from Spain]. Are they valid subspecies or only the result of phenotypic plasticity (ecological forms)? (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). |ISSN 0171-0079| Atalanta vol. 48 (1-4): 188-196:
- Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara hippolyte:
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