Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Ahlbergia |
Species: | A. frivaldszkyi |
Binomial name | |
Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi (Lederer, 1855) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi is a species of butterfly found in Russia and the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The larva feeds on Spiraea japonica . It was described by Julius Lederer in 1853 as Thecla frivaldszkyi.
In 1909, Adalbert Seitz wrote:
frivaldszkyi Led. (= coerulescens Motsch.) (72 f). Above blackish brown, dusted with bluish grey, particularly at the base, male with a very small yellow scent-patch at the edge of the cell; hindwing with curved median bands which form the border of the darker basal area. Extending from the Altai through Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia to Amurland. — ferrea Btlr. (= frivaldszkyi Pryer) (72 f) is the eastern form from Corea and Japan; it is larger, the upperside being more evenly dusted with iron-grey to the margin and the orange-yellow scent-patch of the male being much larger. Not rare from March into June; the butterflies belong in Japan to the very first species in the spring. [2]
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