Pseudochazara mniszechii

Pseudochazara mniszechii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudochazara
Species:	P. mniszechii
Binomial name
	Pseudochazara mniszechii; (Herrich-Schaffer, [1851])
Synonyms
	Eumenis mniszechii Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]; Eumenis mniszechii Herrich-Schäffer, [1852]; Satyrus pelopea var. caucasica Lederer, 1864;

Pseudochazara mniszechii, the tawny rockbrown, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[1] It is confined to Greece, Turkey, northern Iran, Balochistan, and the Caucasus.

Flight period

The species is univoltine and is on wing from the end of June to mid-September.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

Pseudochazara mniszechii mniszechii Turkey
Pseudochazara mniszechii caucasica (Lederer, 1864) Erzincan, Erzurum, Gumushane, Kars, Tunceli and Bayburt, Ardahan - Turkey (also seen in Transcaucasia)
Pseudochazara mniszechii tisiphone (Brown, 1981) Northern Greece, Bursa - Turkey

Description in Seitz

S. mniszechii H.-Schiff. (43 e). Very similar to the preceding [ S. telephassa ], especially in the female sex but with the reddish yellow band of the forewing with the proximal edge less straight, neither being interrupted below the apical ocellus as in the pelopea- forms , nor strongly constricted as in telephassa. The band of the hindwing more even than in telephassa, almost reaching the costal edge. At the anal angle of the hindwing above there are always 2 distinct small white spots. Underside more uniformly sandy grey or sandy brown in both sexes. Size exactly as in telephassa. East-coast of the Black Sea, and Asia Minor. — In herrichii [now subspecies ] Stgr., from North Persia and Turkestan, the fringes are white, the bands of the upperside broader and brighter red -yellow; the hindwing beneath grey, the markings being more distinct in the male. ^[2]

Gallery

Pseudochazara mniszechii tisiphone mating
Pseudochazara mniszechii tisiphone variation

References

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

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara mniszechii

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

[2] 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.

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