Pseudochazara anthelea

Pseudochazara anthelea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudochazara
Species:	P. anthelea
Binomial name
Pseudochazara anthelea (Hübner, 1825)

Pseudochazara anthelea is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and northern Iraq.^{[citation needed]} The males can be easily distinguished from the females by the white base and they are found in dry, stony slopes and gullies, usually on limestone.^{[citation needed]}

Subspecies[edit]

There is one subspecies of Pseudochazara anthelea:

• Pseudochazara anthelea amalthea Frivaldsky 1845

This subspecies is localised in Crete, Greece and in the Struma valley of Bulgaria.

Flight period[edit]

This species is univoltine, and is on wing from late May to early July depending on altitude and locality.^{[citation needed]}

Food plants[edit]

Larvae have been reared on grasses.^{[citation needed]}

Description in Seitz[edit]

S. anthelea Hbn. ( = telephassa Dup.) (43 g). male with a white band which is only distally shaded with reddish yellow, and with a black smear-like brand in the cell; the hindwing beneath marmorated with grey, bearing on the disc an irregular, band-like, white spot. The female has a bright ochre-yellow distal band, which extends on the forewing as a long and broad smear over the disc into the brown-grey ground-colour to near the base. These forms are the commoner ones. There occur, however, also males with the bands strongly washed with yellow; this is ab. syriaca Ruhl ; in Asia Minor, especially abundant in the Taurus, above Adana; also in Lydia and Kurdistan. — The European form, amalthea Friv: (43 g), has similar males as the form from Asia Minor, but entirely different females; these are like the males, possessing on the forewing a white macular band, with very large ocelli, the hindwing usually bearing in the middle a white smear; south-eastern districts of the Balcan Peninsula. — The butterflies are extremely abundant in their flight places, namely barren hills and sterile detritus, and fly in April and May, at higher altitudes not before the end of May.^[1]

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Species info
• "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Butterflies of Europe, Tom Tolman, 1997, Princeton University Press

External links[edit]

• Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic