Scarce Large Blue
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| Scarce Large Blue | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Phengaris |
| Species: | P. teleius |
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| Phengaris teleius | |
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Glaucopsyche teleius | |
The Scarce Large Blue (Phengaris teleius) is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
The larva of this species first feeds on Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet), then move to an ant nest and are predators of the ant brood. Myrmica rubra and Myrmica scabrinodis have been reported as frequent host ant species .[1]
Sources
- ↑ Tartally, A. and Varga, Z. Host ant use of Maculinea teleius in the Carpathian Basin (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 54 (3), pp. 257–268, 2008
Data related to Maculinea teleius at Wikispecies
Media related to Maculinea teleius at Wikimedia Commons
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Maculinea teleius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
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