| Pseudochazara geyeri | |
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| Galichica National Park North Macedonia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. geyeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara geyeri (Herrich-Schaffer, 1846) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudochazara geyeri, the Grey Asian grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, eastern Turkey and south-western Transcaucasia.
S. geyeri H.-Schiff. (43c). Recalling autonoe , but the upperside is not so dark; the ground-colour is yellowish grey, the markings of the underside distinctly shining through and the dark veins being quite plain. Underside of forewing light, feebly shaded with yellowish; the hindwing beneath coarsely marmorated and white-veined, bearing beyond the middle a light band which is interrupted above and below the apex of the cell. — On the east coast of the Black Sea, in Asia Minor, Armenia and Kurdistan, in July and August, very abundant. [2]
The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.
Larvae feed on grasses.
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