Ripart's anomalous blue

Ripart's anomalous blue (Polyommatus ripartii) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Ripart's anomalous blue
Both in North Macedonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species:
P. ripartii
Binomial name
Polyommatus ripartii
(Freyer, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii

It is found in Southern Europe, Greece and the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Crimea, South-West Siberia, the Altai Mountains and Kazakhstan.It is very similar to Polyommatus admetus and Seitz regards it as a form of admetus - ripartii Frr. (81 f), but has on the hindwing below a white mesial streak which extends from the base to the outer margin.[1]

References
  1. Seitz, A. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Vila R., Lukhtanov V.A., Talavera G., Gil-T F., Pierce N.E., 2010 "How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers.Biol. J. Linn. Soc. Lond 101:130-154 (2010) Agrodiaetus galloi, Agrodiaetus exuberans, and Agrodiaetus agenjoi are shown to be local populations of Agrodiaetus ripartii and not endemic species with highly restricted distribution ranges.
  • mating
  • figure from Seitz
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