Pseudochazara graeca is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] In Greece it is confined to Mount Parnassus, Mount Olympus, Mount D'rfis, Mount Chelmos, Mount Panakhaikon, Mount Menalon, Mount Mainalo, Mount Taygetus and Katara Pass in the Pindus Mountains. In North Macedonia it is found on Pelister.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. graeca
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara graeca (Staudinger, 1870)
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Description
editgraeca Stgr. (44a), from Greece, is still darker and moreover rather considerably smaller than the previous forms [ of Pseudochazara mamurra].[2]
Flight period
editThe species is univoltine and is on wing from mid-July to late August.
Food plants
editLarvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies
edit- Pseudochazara graeca graeca Mount Parnassos, Mount Timfrstos
- Pseudochazara graeca apollo (Gross, 1978) Mount Chelmos
- Pseudochazara graeca coutsis (Brown, 1977) Mount Smolikas, Timfi Mountains and Katara Pass
- Pseudochazara graeca pelops (Gross, 1978) Mount Taygetus
References
edit- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Seitz, A. 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)
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