Polyommatus artvinensis
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Polyommatus artvinensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Polyommatus |
Species: | P. artvinensis |
Binomial name | |
Polyommatus artvinensis (Carbonell, 1997)[1] | |
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Polyommatus artvinensis is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Carbonell in 1997. It is found in Turkey, where it is only known from the north-eastern Pontic chain, in the provinces of Erzurum and Artvin.
The length of the forewings is 13.5–16 mm. The upperside ground-colour is purplish violet. The underside ground-colour is warm greyish brown, without any or at most a vestigial blue-green basal suffusion.[2]
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