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Polyommatus phyllis
Polyommatus phyllis in Seitz 81 g
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Polyommatus
Species:	P. phyllis
Binomial name
Polyommatus phyllis (Christoph, 1877)

Polyommatus phyllis is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (North Iran, Kopet-Dagh) that belongs to the blues family.

Description from Seitz

L. phyllis Christ. (81 g). Male above sea-green, with a silvery silky gloss; female dark brown, with a distinct discocellular spot on the forewing. On the underside both sexes have a very sharply defined conspicuous mesial streak which extends from the base across some ocelli to the outer margin. From Persia. — posthumus Christ. (81h) is a mountain-form. The male beneath much more dusted with verdigris at the base, usually smaller and the upperside of a more bluish tinge. Female strongly marked with dark, the veins deeper black and more prominent. At Shakuh, but only at higher altitudes (9—11 000 ft.), while phyllis flies in abundance already low down in the valley.

Biology

The larva feeds on Onobrychis cornuta

See also

• List of butterflies of Russia

References

1. Christoph, 1877 Sammelergebnisse aus Nordpersion, Krasnowodsk in Turkmenien und dem Daghestan Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 12 (2): 181-192, (3): 197-299 (1877), (4): pl. 5-8
2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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