Pseudochazara beroe

Pseudochazara beroe is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from western Turkey across southern Transcaucasia and the Elburz Mountains to Kopet-Dagh.

Pseudochazara beroe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. beroe
Binomial name
Pseudochazara beroe
Synonyms
  • Pseudochazara altivolans Gross, 1978

Description in Seitz

S. beroe Frr. (43 g). Recalling pelopea in pattern, but the ground-colour much lighter, being glossy dust-grey, the distal band dull wax-yellow, with 2 rather large dark ocelli on the forewing. Costal margin and fringes of a whitish silky gloss. Hindwing beneath yellowish grey- brown, with a dirty white band beyond the middle. — In ab. rhena H.-Schiff. the band is more or less tinged with reddish yellow distally, and in ab. aurantiaca Stgr. (43 g, 44 a) the bands are entirely orange-yellow. — In Asia Minor, occurring more singly, from June till August. [1]

Flight period

The species is univoltine and on wing from mid-June to August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies
  • Pseudochazara beroe beroe
  • Pseudochazara aurantiaca (Staudinger, 1871) (Kopet-Dagh)
  • Pseudochazara rhena (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852) (Armenian Highland)

References
  1. Seitz 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) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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