Pseudochazara turkestana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. turkestana
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara turkestana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)
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Pseudochazara turkestana is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Afghanistan through the mountains of Middle Asia to the south-west Altai.
Flight period
[edit]The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.
Food plants
[edit]Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
[edit]- Pseudochazara turkestana turkestana Afghanistan
- Pseudochazara turkestana esquilinus (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Alay Mountains
- Pseudochazara turkestana sagina (Ruhl, [1894]) Tajikistan, Ghissar, southern Ghissar, Darvaz, the western Pamirs
- Pseudochazara turkestana tarbagata (Staudinger, 1901) Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur and Tarbagatai, Kazakhstan, the south-west Altai
References
[edit]- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms