Pseudochazara graeca explained

Pseudochazara graeca is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[1] In Greece it is confined to Mount Parnassus, Mount Olympus, Mount D'rfis, Mount Chelmos, Mount Panakhaikon, Mount Menalon, Mount Mainalo, Mount Taygetus and Katara Pass in the Pindus Mountains. In North Macedonia it is found on Pelister.

Description

graeca Stgr. (44a), from Greece, is still darker and moreover rather considerably smaller than the previous forms [of ''[[Pseudochazara mamurra]]].^[2]

Flight period

The species is univoltine and is on wing from mid-July to late August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

• Pseudochazara graeca graeca Mount Parnassos, Mount Timfrstos
• Pseudochazara graeca apollo (Gross, 1978) Mount Chelmos
• Pseudochazara graeca coutsis (Brown, 1977) Mount Smolikas, Timfi Mountains and Katara Pass
• Pseudochazara graeca pelops (Gross, 1978) Mount Taygetus

References

• Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara graeca

Notes and References

1. http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/pseudochazara/ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951"
2. Seitz, A. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)