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Polyommatus miris

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Description

Polyommatus miris (Staudinger, 1881)

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Material examined. ♂ with the following label “O-Afghanistan, Prv. Kunar-Nuristan, ob. Lindai Sin-Tal, vic. Barg e-Matal, Dándizenor mts., 4000 m, 15.7.1970, leg. Naumann, Coll Nr ZMK 94” (SMNK).

Distribution range of species. Afghanistan (first record), western China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Comment. recorded for Afghanistan as potentially occurring, but this record was not based on reliable material (Samodurov 2000: 180; Zhdanko 2002: 142).

Notes

Published as part of Tshikolovets, Vadim, 2017, New taxa and new records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Afghanistan, pp. 107-124 in Zootaxa 4358 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1067439

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Staudinger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Polyommatus
Species
miris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polyommatus miris (Staudinger, 1881) sec. Tshikolovets, 2017

References

  • Staudinger, O. (1881) Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Central-Asiens. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 42 (7 / 9), 253 - 300.
  • Samodurov, G. D. (2000) Family Lycaenidae: Vacciniina. In: Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and Adjacent Territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Vol. 2. Pensoft, Sofia, Moscow, pp. 177 - 180.
  • Zhdanko, A. B. (2002) An annotated checklist of species of the family Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) occurring in Kazakhstan. Tethys Entomological Research, 6, 125 - 146.