Pseudochazara schahrudensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. schahrudensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara schahrudensis (Staudinger, 1881)
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Pseudochazara schahrudensis or Shahrud grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Bitlis, Hakkari, Van, Şırnak in Turkey; to the Caucasus to the eastern Alborz.
Habitat[]
In Armenia the species occupies dry clayey and stony habitats including semi-deserts and mountain steppes at 1000–2500 metres above sea level.[2]
Flight period[]
The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to September.
Food plants[]
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies[]
- Pseudochazara schahrudensis schahrudensis Turkey, Armenia, and Dagestan
- Pseudochazara schahrudensis nukatli (Bogdanov, 2000) Verkhny (near) Gunib. Nukatl' Mts – Dagestan
References[]
- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Pseudochazara schahrudensis".
External links[]
Categories:
- Pseudochazara
- Butterflies described in 1881
- Butterflies of Asia
- Taxa named by Otto Staudinger
- Satyrini stubs