Agriades pyrenaicus

Agriades pyrenaicus
A. p. asturiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Genus: Agriades
Species: A. pyrenaicus
Binomial name
Agriades pyrenaicus
(Boisduval, 1840)
Synonyms
  • Lycaena orbitulus pyrenaica Boisduval, 1840
  • Lycaena pyrenaica asturiensis Oberthür, 1910
  • Agriades ergane Higgins, 1981
  • Lycaena dardanus Freyer, 1844
  • Lycaena araraticus Gerhard, 1853
  • Lycaena rebeli Tuleschkow, 1932
  • Lycaena latedisjuncta Alberti, 1973
  • Agriades hesselbarthi Nekrutenko, 1974
  • Agriades erzurumensis Eckweiler & Hesselbarth, 1978
  • Agriades kudrnai Koçak, 1980

Agriades pyrenaicus, the Gavarnie blue, is a Palearctic butterfly of the Lycaenidae family.[1] It is found in the Asturias mountains of north-western Spain, the Pyrenees, the southern Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, the Caucasus and Armenia.[2] The habitat consists of alpine grassy rocky meadows where it is found at altitudes ranging from 1,500 to 2,200 meters.[3]

The wingspan is 22–28 mm.[4]

The larvae feed on Androsace species.

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ "Agriades Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. ↑ Agriades dardanus at euroButterflies
  3. ↑ Agriades pyrenaicus at euroButterflies
  4. ↑ asturnatura
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