Pseudochazara mamurra
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.
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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) | |
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It is a very variable species.
Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
- 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
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
- "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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