Pseudochazara lydia

Pseudochazara lydia is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Turkey and Asia Minor.

Pseudochazara lydia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. lydia
Binomial name
Pseudochazara lydia
(Staudinger, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Satyrus mamurra var. lydia Staudinger, 1878
  • Satyrus mamummra var. obscura Staudinger, 1878

Flight period

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

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

  • Pseudochazara lydia lydia Bilecik, Eskişehir, Manisa, Bursa (Uludağ - Soğukpinar), Afyon (Sultan Dağlari), Konya (Akşehir) - Turkey
  • Pseudochazara lydia aurora Eckweiler & Rose, 1989 Antalya, Burdur, Denizli, Isparta, Muğla - Turkey
  • Pseudochazara lydia obscura (Staudinger, 1878) Içel (Tekir, Elmah, Boğazi), Antalya (Akseki & Irmasan Geçidi), Konya, Adana (N Saimbeyli) - Turkey
  • Pseudochazara lydia neglecta (Gross, 1978) - Turkey;
  • Pseudochazara lydia nesrin (Koçak, 1989) - Turkey.
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References

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