Pseudochazara graeca
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| Species: | P. graeca
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| Pseudochazara graeca (Staudinger, 1870)
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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 Macedonia it is found on Pelister.
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