Polyommatus erotides
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| Polyommatus erotides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. erotides |
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| Polyommatus erotides (Staudinger, 1892) [1] | |
Polyommatus erotides is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Saur, Altai, Siberia, Transbaikalia, Mongolia) that belongs to the blues family.
Formerly a subspecies of Polyommatus eros.
Description from Seitz
erotides Stgr. (80 d), from the mountains of Southern Siberia, is a large, blue-green male form, with broad black distal margin to the forewing, into which the deep black veins merge.[2]
