Neolycaena rhymnus

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Neolycaena rhymnus
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Neolycaena rhymnus in Seitz
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Neolycaena
Species:
N. rhymnus
Binomial name
Neolycaena rhymnus
(Eversmann, 1832) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lycaena rhymnusEversmann, 1832
  • Neolycaena betpakdalensisZhdanko, 1998
  • Neolycaena rufinaLukhtanov, 1994

Neolycaena rhymnus is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Ukraine and southern and central Russia to the southern Ural Mountains, Zauralye, the western and southern Altai Region, the Sayan Mountains and Kazakhstan. Seitz gives this description - T. rhymnus Ev. (73 f). Tailless, the wings brown above and beneath. The underside irrorated with numerous white short dashes, which are partly placed in rows and partly irregularly dispersed. — In South Russia, South Siberia to the Altai, in May and June, on steppes. [2]

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Adults are on wing from late May to mid-June. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Caragana frutex .

Subspecies

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References

  1. Eversmann, E.F., 1832. Lepidopterorum species nonnullae novae Gubernium Orenburgense incolentes. Nouvelles Memoires de la Societe imperiela des Naturalistes de Moscou. 2: 347–354, 2 cpls.
  2. Seitz, A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .