Polyommatus artvinensis

Polyommatus artvinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species: P. artvinensis
Binomial name
Polyommatus artvinensis
(Carbonell, 1997)[1]
Synonyms
  • Agrodiaetus actis artvinensis Carbonell, 1997

Polyommatus artvinensis is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Carbonell in 1997. It is found in Turkey, where it is only known from the north-eastern Pontic chain, in the provinces of Erzurum and Artvin.

The length of the forewings is 13.5–16 mm. The upperside ground-colour is purplish violet. The underside ground-colour is warm greyish brown, without any or at most a vestigial blue-green basal suffusion.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Polyommatus at funet.fi
  2. ↑ Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) artvinensis stat. nov. and P. (A.) sigberti sp. nov., two vicariant species known so far only from Turkey (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)


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