Pseudochazara anthelea

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Pseudochazara anthelea - Wikipedia

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Pseudochazara anthelea

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudochazara
Species:	P. anthelea
Binomial name
*Pseudochazara anthelea* (Hübner, 1825)

Pseudochazara anthelea is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and northern Iraq.^{[citation needed]} The males can be easily distinguished from the females by the white base and they are found in dry, stony slopes and gullies, usually on limestone.^{[citation needed]}

Subspecies

There is one subspecies of Pseudochazara anthelea:

Pseudochazara anthelea amalthea Frivaldsky 1845

This subspecies is localised in Crete, Greece and in the Struma valley of Bulgaria.

Flight period

This species is univoltine, and is on wing from late May to early July depending on altitude and locality.^{[citation needed]}

Food plants

Larvae have been reared on grasses.^{[citation needed]}

Description in Seitz

S. anthelea Hbn. ( = telephassa Dup.) (43 g). male with a white band which is only distally shaded with reddish yellow, and with a black smear-like brand in the cell; the hindwing beneath marmorated with grey, bearing on the disc an irregular, band-like, white spot. The female has a bright ochre-yellow distal band, which extends on the forewing as a long and broad smear over the disc into the brown-grey ground-colour to near the base. These forms are the commoner ones. There occur, however, also males with the bands strongly washed with yellow; this is ab. syriaca Ruhl ; in Asia Minor, especially abundant in the Taurus, above Adana; also in Lydia and Kurdistan. — The European form, amalthea Friv: (43 g), has similar males as the form from Asia Minor, but entirely different females; these are like the males, possessing on the forewing a white macular band, with very large ocelli, the hindwing usually bearing in the middle a white smear; south-eastern districts of the Balcan Peninsula. — The butterflies are extremely abundant in their flight places, namely barren hills and sterile detritus, and fly in April and May, at higher altitudes not before the end of May.^[1]

References

^ Seitz 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.

Sources

Species info
"Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Butterflies of Europe, Tom Tolman, 1997, Princeton University Press

External links

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic

Taxon identifiers
Pseudochazara anthelea	Wikidata: Q2827136 BioLib: 51796 EoL: 4083871 Fauna Europaea: 441484 Fauna Europaea (new): 52660333-02e7-4341-80ed-0542e4e3ed7c GBIF: 4535596 iNaturalist: 334421 MaBENA: PseudAnthe NCBI: 1775677 Open Tree of Life: 3106575
Papilio anthelea	Wikidata: Q109585731 GBIF: 6547904

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