Tarucus balkanicus
| Balkan Pierrot | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Tarucus |
| Species: | T. balkanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1885)[1] | |
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The Balkan Pierrot or Little Tiger Blue (Tarucus balkanicus) is a small butterfly that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. It is found in Mauritania, Niger (the Air region), Sudan (Khartoum), Uganda, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, North Africa, the Balkans, Western Asia, parts of Central Asia and in India. The habitat consists of very arid savanna.[2]
Tarucus balkanicus, Mersin, Turkey.
The larvae feed on Ziziphus species.
Subspecies
- T. b. balkanicus (Mauritania, Niger: Air region, Sudan, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Algeria, south-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, Middle East, Syria, Iran, North Africa)
- T. b. areshana Bethune-Baker, [1918] (Kopet-Dagh)
- T. b. alternatus Moore, 1882 (Ghissar, Darvaz)
- T. b. nigra Bethune-Baker, 1918 - Black-spotted Pierrot
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- ↑ Tarucus, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)
Further reading
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Moths. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
- Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Moths of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
- Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac & Punetha, J.C.(1992) Common Moths of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
- Haribal, Meena (1994) Moths of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
- Kunte, Krushnamegh (2005) Moths of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Moths of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.