Pseudochazara mamurra
Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, and Turkey. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys.
Buff Asian grayling | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. mamurra |
Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara mamurra (Herrich-Schäffer 1852) | |
Synonyms | |
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It is a very variable species.
Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
- Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra (Turkey)
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone Brown, 1976 - Brown's grayling (Greece and Albania)
- Pseudochazara mamurra birgit Gross, 1978 (Turkey)
Pseudochazara mamurra amymone is alternatively treated as a full species.
Gallery
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone upperside and underside
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone variation
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone mating
- Pseudochazara mamurra amymone caught by a crab spider
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References
- "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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