Ripart's anomalous blue

Ripart's anomalous blue (Polyommatus ripartii) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Ripart's anomalous blue
Both in North Macedonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species:
P. ripartii
Binomial name
Polyommatus ripartii
(Freyer, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii

It is found in Southern Europe, Greece and the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Crimea, South-West Siberia, the Altai Mountains and Kazakhstan. It now includes the former Agrodiaetus galloi (Italy), Agrodiaetus exuberans (Italy), and Agrodiaetus agenjoi (Spain), which used to be considered endemic species with highly restricted distribution ranges, but were then shown to be local populations of P. ripartii.[1] It is very similar to Polyommatus admetus and Seitz regards it as a form of admetus - ripartii Frr. (81 f), but has on the hindwing below a white mesial streak which extends from the base to the outer margin.[2]

Its Polish population is considered one of the most endangered butterflies in central Europe.[3]

References
    • Vila R., Lukhtanov V.A., Talavera G., Gil-T F., Pierce N.E., 2010 "How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers.Biol. J. Linn. Soc. Lond 101:130-154 (2010)
  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.
  3. Przybyłowicz, Łukasz. “Polyommatus ripartii: the biological basis for the conservation and the morphology of the developmental stages of a critically endangered, relict population in central Europe.” Journal of insect science (Online) vol. 14 247. 1 Jan. 2014, doi:10.1093/jisesa/ieu109
  • mating
  • figure from Seitz
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