Tongeia fischeri
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Tongeia fischeri, the Fischer's blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in south-eastern Europe, the southern Ural, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, south-western and southern Siberia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Sakhalin), Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.
Larva feed on various succulent plants, including Orostachys japonica.
Subspecies
- T. f. fischeri
- T. f. caudalis (Bryk, 1946) (Korea)
- T. f. dea Zhdanko, 2000 (Amur)
- T. f. sachalinensis (Matsumura, 1925) (Sakhalin)
References
- Tongeia fischeri at Insecta.pro
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