Polyommatus damonides
| Polyommatus damonides | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. damonides |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyommatus damonides (Staudinger, 1899)[1] | |
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The Damonides Blue (Polyommatus damonides) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Staudinger in 1899. It is endemic of southern part of the Zangezur Mountains,[2] [3] where is known from two populations. One population inhabits the vicinity of the town of Meghri in Armenia (Syunik marz) and another lives in the vicinity of the town of Ordubad in Nakhichevan. Included in Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia as Crically Endangered CR B1ab(i,ii,iii)+B2b(i,ii,iii).[4]
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- ↑ Polyommatus at funet.fi
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Butterfly Conservation Armenia http://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/polyommatus-damonides.html
- ↑ Danchenko A. Agrodiaetus damonides. 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/a140.html
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