Tomares romanovi, or Romanoff's hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, eastern Turkey, northern Iran, and Kopet Dagh mountains.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Tomares |
| Species: | T. romanovi
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| Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882)
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The wingspan is 28–30 mm. The species inhabits calcareous grasslands and arid mountain steppes, usually dominated by tragacanth locoweeds. It occupies elevation range from 1200 to 1600 m above sea level.[1] The butterfly flies from late April to mid-June depending on latitude and elevation.
The larvae feed on the Astragalus species A. scharuhdensis and A. finitimus.
Subspecies
edit- Tomares romanovi romanovi (Armenia, Nakhichevan)
- Tomares romanovi cachetinus Nekrutenko, 1978 (Georgia)
- Tomares romanovi cyprius Stichel, 1911 (Talysh, Kopet-Dagh)
- Tomares romanovi maculifera (Staudinger, [1892])
References
editExternal links
edit- "Tomares Rambur, 1840" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Butterfly Conservation Armenia
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