Polyommatus artvinensis

Polyommatus artvinensis is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frédéric Carbonell in 1997. It is found in Turkey, where it is only known from the north-eastern Pontic chain, in the provinces of Erzurum and Artvin.

Polyommatus artvinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species:
P. artvinensis
Binomial name
Polyommatus artvinensis
(Carbonell, 1997)[1]
Synonyms
  • Agrodiaetus actis artvinensis Carbonell, 1997

The length of the forewings is 13.5–16 mm. The upperside ground colour is purplish violet. The underside ground colour is warm greyish brown, without any or at most a vestigial blue-green basal suffusion.[2]

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