Pseudochazara thelephassa
Pseudochazara thelephassa, the Baluchi rockbrown, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is found in Turkey (Adana, Adıyaman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Hatay, İzmir, Kars, Malatya, Kahramanmaraş, Mardin, Nevşehir, Siirt, Tunceli, Urfa, Şırnak, Iğdır) to Asia Minor across Iran, Iraq, Transcaucasia and Kopet-Dagh to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
| Pseudochazara thelephassa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. thelephassa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara thelephassa (Geyer, [1827]) | |
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Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from April to July.
Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.
References
- "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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