Pseudochazara mniszechii

Pseudochazara mniszechii
Scientific classification
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.

Larvae feed on grasses.

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

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