| Dusky Large Blue | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Phengaris |
| Species: | P. nausithous |
| Binomial name | |
| Phengaris nausithous |
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| Synonyms | |
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Glaucopsyche nausithous |
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The Dusky Large Blue (Phengaris nausithous) is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine.[1]
Life cycle of this species is strongly related to Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet).[1]
Media related to [[commons:Maculinea nausithous|Maculinea nausithous]] at Wikimedia Commons