Polyommatus poseidon
Appearance
Polyommatus poseidon | |
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Male upperside (left) and underside (right) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Polyommatus |
Species: | P. poseidon
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Binomial name | |
Polyommatus poseidon | |
Synonyms | |
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Polyommatus poseidon is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Julius Lederer in 1852. It is found from Kütahya in western Turkey to Artvin in north-eastern Turkey, as well as in Georgia.[2]
Males have plesiomorphic blue colouration of the upper side of the wings with no specific morphological characters.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Polyommatus poseidon.
- ^ Polyommatus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ^ Chromosomal and molecular evidence for presence of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) poseidon (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in Caucasus region