Polyommatus erotides | |
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Polyommatus erotides in Seitz 80 d | |
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Polyommatus erotides (Staudinger, 1892) [1]
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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.
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]
The larva feeds on Fabaceae.