Pseudochazara mamurra
| Buff Asian grayling | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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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Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. 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
Univoltine 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
External links
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