Pseudochazara turkestana

Species of butterfly

Pseudochazara turkestana

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

P. turkestana

Binomial name
Pseudochazara turkestana

(Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)

Synonyms

* Satyrus lehana var. turkestana Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Pseudochazara turkestana is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Afghanistan through the mountains of Middle Asia to the south-west Altai.

## 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 turkestana turkestana Afghanistan
* Pseudochazara turkestana esquilinus (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Alay Mountains
* Pseudochazara turkestana sagina (Ruhl, [1894]) Tajikistan, Ghissar, southern Ghissar, Darvaz, the western Pamirs
* Pseudochazara turkestana tarbagata (Staudinger, 1901) Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur and Tarbagatai, Kazakhstan, the south-west Altai

## 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 turkestana

Taxon identifiers

Pseudochazara turkestana|

* Wikidata: Q7254633
* Wikispecies: Pseudochazara turkestana
* BioLib: 700171
* BOLD: 246958
* GBIF: 9833482
* NCBI: 596660
* Open Tree of Life: 1022418