Pseudochazara pelopea

Pseudochazara pelopea is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Lebanon, Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria, Turkmenistan and Kopet-Dagh.

Pseudochazara pelopea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. pelopea
Binomial name
Pseudochazara pelopea
(Klug, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Hipparchia pelopea Klug, 1832

Flight period

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

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

  • Pseudochazara pelopea pelopea
  • Pseudochazara pelopea persica (Christoph, 1877) the Caucasus Major and Minor, the Armenian Highland and Talysh; Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Gümüşhane, Hakkari, Kars, Kayseri, Malatya, Maraş, Mardin, Muş, Rize, Siirt, Sivas, Tunceli, Urfa, Van, Şırnak, Iğdır – Turkey
  • Pseudochazara pelopea tekkensis (Heyne, [1895]) Kopet Dagh - Turkmenistan/Iran border
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References

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