Pseudochazara geyeri, the Grey Asian grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, eastern Turkey and south-western Transcaucasia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochazara |
| Species: | P. geyeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudochazara geyeri (Herrich-Schaffer, 1846)
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Description in Seitz edit
S. geyeri H.-Schiff. (43c). Recalling autonoe, but the upperside is not so dark; the ground-colour is yellowish grey, the markings of the underside distinctly shining through and the dark veins being quite plain. Underside of forewing light, feebly shaded with yellowish; the hindwing beneath coarsely marmorated and white-veined, bearing beyond the middle a light band which is interrupted above and below the apex of the cell. — On the east coast of the Black Sea, in Asia Minor, Armenia and Kurdistan, in July and August, very abundant.[2]
Flight period edit
The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.
Food plants edit
Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies edit
- Pseudochazara geyeri geyeri
- Pseudochazara geyeri karsicola Gross, 1978 (Armenian Highland)
- Pseudochazara geyeri occidentalis (Rebel & Zerny, 1931) (Albania)
References edit
- ^ "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Seitz 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)
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