Lasiommata menava

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Dark wall
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lasiommata
Species:
L. menava
Binomial name
Lasiommata menava
(Moore, 1865)

Lasiommata menava, the dark wall, is a species of satyrine butterfly found from Asia Minor across Transcaucasia and the mountains of Central Asia to the Hindu Kush and the north-western Himalayas. [1]

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References

  1. "Lasiommata Westwood, 1841" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms