Pseudochazara turkestana

Pseudochazara turkestana is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Afghanistan through the mountains of Middle Asia to the south-west Altai.

Pseudochazara turkestana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. turkestana
Binomial name
Pseudochazara turkestana
(Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Satyrus lehana var. turkestana Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Flight period

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

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

  • Pseudochazara turkestana turkestana Afghanistan
  • Pseudochazara turkestana esquilinus (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Alay Mountains
  • Pseudochazara turkestana sagina (Ruhl, [1894]) Tajikistan, Ghissar, southern Ghissar, Darvaz, the western Pamirs
  • Pseudochazara turkestana tarbagata (Staudinger, 1901) Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur and Tarbagatai, Kazakhstan, the south-west Altai
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References

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