Pseudochazara mamurra

Species of butterfly

Buff Asian grayling

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Genus:  | Pseudochazara
Species:  |

P. mamurra

Binomial name
Pseudochazara mamurra

(Herrich-Schäffer 1852)

Synonyms

* Satyrus mamurra Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]
* Pseudochazara amymone Brown, 1976

Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, and Turkey. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys.

It is a very variable species.

## Flight period

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The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.

## Food plants

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Larvae feed on grasses.

## Subspecies

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* Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra (Turkey)
* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone Brown, 1976 \- Brown's grayling (Greece and Albania)
* Pseudochazara mamurra birgit Gross, 1978 (Turkey)

Pseudochazara mamurra amymone is alternatively treated as a full species.

## Gallery

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* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone

* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone upperside and underside

* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone variation

* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone mating

* Pseudochazara mamurra amymone caught by a crab spider

## References

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1. ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

* Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara mamurra

Taxon identifiers

Pseudochazara mamurra|

* Wikidata: Q3348703
* BioLib: 274210
* CoL: 4NT8Z
* EoL: 146429
* GBIF: 1911632
* iNaturalist: 1157794
* IRMNG: 11025659
* LepIndex: 144321
* NCBI: 366168
* Observation.org: 81131
* Open Tree of Life: 165153