Misplaced Pages

Turanana cytis

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of butterfly

Turanana cytis
In Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Turanana
Species: T. cytis
Binomial name
Turanana cytis
(Christoph, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Lycaena cytis Christoph, 1877

Turanana cytis, the Persian odd-spot blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is found in Turkey, the Kopet-Dagh and Iran (the Alborz and Zagros Mountains).

The larvae feed on Acantholimon species.

References

  1. Turanana at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

Taxon identifiers
Turanana cytis


This Polyommatini-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Turanana cytis Add topic