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Polyommatus achaemenes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Polyommatus
Species:	P. achaemenes
Binomial name
Polyommatus achaemenes (Skala, 2002)
Synonyms
Agrodiaetus achaemenes Skala, 2002

Polyommatus achaemenes is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Skala in 2002. It is only known from very high altitudes (ranging from 3,800 to 4,000 meters) in the Iranian Zagros Mountains (Kuh-e-Haft, Bakhtiari).

References

1. "Polyommatus Latreille, 1804" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Chromosome differentiation and the radiation of the butterfly subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus) – a molecular phylogenetic approach

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