en Pseudochazara graeca

Pseudochazara graeca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudochazara
Species:	P. graeca
Binomial name
	Pseudochazara graeca; (Staudinger, 1870)

Pseudochazara graeca is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[1] In Greece it is confined to Mount Parnassus, Mount Olympus, Mount D'rfis, Mount Chelmos, Mount Panakhaikon, Mount Menalon, Mount Mainalo, Mount Taygetus and Katara Pass in the Pindus Mountains. In North Macedonia it is found on Pelister.

Description

graeca Stgr. (44a), from Greece, is still darker and moreover rather considerably smaller than the previous forms [ of Pseudochazara mamurra].^[2]

Flight period

The species is univoltine and is on wing from mid-July to late August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

Pseudochazara graeca graeca Mount Parnassos, Mount Timfrstos
Pseudochazara graeca apollo (Gross, 1978) Mount Chelmos
Pseudochazara graeca coutsis (Brown, 1977) Mount Smolikas, Timfi Mountains and Katara Pass
Pseudochazara graeca pelops (Gross, 1978) Mount Taygetus

References

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

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara graeca

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

[2] Seitz, A. 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.

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