Tongeia fischeri
| Tongeia fischeri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Tongeia |
| Species: | T. fischeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843) | |
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Tongeia fischeri, Fischer’s blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in south-eastern Europe, the southern Ural, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, south-western and southern Siberia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Sakhalin), Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.
Larva feed on various succulent plants, including Orostachys japonica.
Subspecies
- Tongeia fischeri fischeri
- Tongeia fischeri caudalis (Bryk, 1946) (Korea)
- Tongeia fischeri dea Zhdanko, 2000 (Amur)
- Tongeia fischeri sachalinensis (Matsumura, 1925) (Sakhalin)
References
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