Pseudochazara geyeri

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.

Pseudochazara geyeri
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
Synonyms
  • Satyrus geyeri Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]
  • Satyrus geyeri Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]

Description in Seitz

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]

Flight period

The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies
  • Pseudochazara geyeri geyeri
  • Pseudochazara geyeri karsicola Gross, 1978 (Armenian Highland)
  • Pseudochazara geyeri occidentalis (Rebel & Zerny, 1931) (Albania)

References
  1. "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 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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