Polyommatus arasbarani
| Polyommatus arasbarani | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. arasbarani |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyommatus arasbarani (Carbonell & Naderi, 2000)[1] | |
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Polyommatus arasbarani, the Arasbaran anomalous blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Carbonell & Naderi in 2000[2]. It is endemic of southern slope of the Meghri Mountains in Armenia[3] and nearby Arasbaran Mountains in northern Iran. Armenia is inhabited by subspecies P. a. neglecta (which was initially described as a species, Agrodiaetus neglectus).[4][5] It inhabits forests alternated with dry steppe-like areas at elevations of 1700–2000 m above sea level. The species is included in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia as endangered EN B1a+B2a, although in the book it is still called with the invalid name - Agrodiaetus neglectus.[6]
Subspecies
- Polyommatus arasbarani arasbarani (northern Iran)
- Polyommatus arasbarani neglecta Dantchenko, 2000 (southern Armenia)
References
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- ↑ "Polyommatus Latreille, 1804" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Carbonell & Naderi, 2000 Contribution à la connaissance du genre Agrodiaetus Hübner (1822), A. arasbarani nouvelle espèce dans le nord-ouest de I'Iran (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae) Linn. belg. 17 (5) : 218-220
- ↑ Butterfly Conservation Armenia https://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/polyommatus-arasbarani.html
- ↑ Tuzov V.K., P.V. Bogdanov, S.V. Churkin, A.L. Devyatkin, A.V. Danchenko, V.S. Murzin, G.D. Samodurov, A.B. Zhdanko. 2000. Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Volume 2: Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, and Lycaenidae. Pensoft Publishers. 581 pp.
- ↑ Dantchenko A. 2000. A new taxon of the genus Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 from the Transcaucasus. Neue Entomologische Nachricten, 48: 69-71.
- ↑ Danchenko A. Agrodiaetus neglectus. 2010. In: Aghasyan A. and Kalashyan M. (eds). The Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia. Asoghik. Available at http://www.mnp.am/red_book_fauna/eng/a144.html