Polyommatus phyllis

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

Polyommatus phyllis
Polyommatus phyllis in Seitz 81 g
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Polyommatus
Species:	P. phyllis
Binomial name
Polyommatus phyllis (Christoph, 1877)[1]

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.[2]

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.