Pseudochazara pelopea
Pseudochazara pelopea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. pelopea |
Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara pelopea (Klug, 1832) | |
Synonyms | |
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Pseudochazara pelopea (Klug, 1832) is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is confined to Lebanon, Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria, Turkmenistan and Kopet-Dagh.
Flight Period
Univoltime from June to August.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
- Pseudochazara pelopea pelopea
- Pseudochazara pelopea persica (Christoph, 1877) the Caucasus Major and Minor, the Armenian Highland and Talysh; Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Gümüşhane, Hakkari, Kars, Kayseri, Malatya, Maraş, Mardin, Muş, Rize, Siirt, Sivas, Tunceli, Urfa, Van, Şırnak, Iğdır – Turkey
- Pseudochazara pelopea tekkensis (Heyne, [1895]) Kopet Dagh - Turkmenistan/Iran border