Tongeia fischeri
Tongeia fischeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Tongeia |
Species: | T. fischeri |
Binomial name | |
Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843) | |
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Tongeia fischeri, or Fischer's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in south-eastern Europe, the southern Ural, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, south-western and southern Siberia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Sakhalin), Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.
Larva feed on various succulent plants, including Orostachys japonica.
Subspecies
- T. f. fischeri
- T. f. caudalis (Bryk, 1946) (Korea)
- T. f. dea Zhdanko, 2000 (Amur)
- T. f. sachalinensis (Matsumura, 1925) (Sakhalin)
References
- Tongeia fischeri at Insecta.pro
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