Chazara persephone

Chazara persephone
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Chazara
Species: C. persephone
Binomial name
Chazara persephone
(Hubner, [1805])
Synonyms
  • Eumenis persephone Hübner, [1805]
  • Papilio anthe Ochsenheimer, 1807
  • Chazara caucasica Nordmann, 1851
  • Satyrus hanifa Herrich-Schäffer, [1850]

Chazara persephone, the dark rockbrown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found from Crimea across the Caucasus and north of the Middle East to Iran; from the southern Urals across Kazakhstan to the southern Altai and west Siberia.

The wingspan is 45–60 mm. The butterflies fly from June to August.

Subspecies


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