Neolycaena rhymnus

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]

Neolycaena rhymnus
Neolycaena rhymnus in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Neolycaena
Species:
N. rhymnus
Binomial name
Neolycaena rhymnus
(Eversmann, 1832) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lycaena rhymnus Eversmann, 1832
  • Neolycaena betpakdalensis Zhdanko, 1998
  • Neolycaena rufina Lukhtanov, 1994

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

The larvae feed on Caragana frutex.

Subspecies
  • Neolycaena rhymnus rhymnus
  • Neolycaena rhymnus betpakdalensis (western Kazakhstan)
  • Neolycaena rhymnus rufina (Katutau Mountains, Dzhungarsky Alatau, south-eastern Kazakhstan)

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. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Lukhtanov, V.A., 1999: Eine neue ungewöhnliche art der gattung Neolycaena aus Kirgisien (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Atalanta 30 (1/4): 129–134.
  • Tshikolovets, V. V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. ISBN 9788090490000.
  • Zhdanko, A.B. in Tuzov, V. K. (ed.), 2000. Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Volume 2; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae. Pensoft, Sofia.


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