Pseudochazara beroe
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Pseudochazara |
Species: | P. beroe
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Binomial name | |
Pseudochazara beroe (Herrich-Schaffer, [1844])
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Pseudochazara beroe is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from western Turkey across southern Transcaucasia and the Elburz Mountains to Kopet-Dagh.
Description in Seitz[]
S. beroe Frr. (43 g). Recalling pelopea in pattern, but the ground-colour much lighter, being glossy dust-grey, the distal band dull wax-yellow, with 2 rather large dark ocelli on the forewing. Costal margin and fringes of a whitish silky gloss. Hindwing beneath yellowish grey- brown, with a dirty white band beyond the middle. — In ab. rhena H.-Schiff. the band is more or less tinged with reddish yellow distally, and in ab. aurantiaca Stgr. (43 g, 44 a) the bands are entirely orange-yellow. — In Asia Minor, occurring more singly, from June till August. [1]
Flight period[]
The species is univoltine and on wing from mid-June to August.
Food plants[]
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies[]
- Pseudochazara beroe beroe
- Pseudochazara aurantiaca (Staudinger, 1871) (Kopet-Dagh)
- Pseudochazara rhena (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852) (Armenian Highland)
References[]
- ^ Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links[]
- Pseudochazara
- Butterflies described in 1844