Polyommatus australorossicus

Polyommatus australorossicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Polyommatus
Species:
P. australorossicus
Binomial name
Polyommatus australorossicus
Lukhtanov & Dantchenko, 2017

Polyommatus australorossicus, the South-Russian blue, is a butterfly species in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and Alexander V. Dantchenko in 2017 and is found in southern Russia in the Caucasus Mountains.

References

  1. ↑ "New butterfly species discovered in Russia with an unusual set of 46 chromosomes". Phys.org. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Lukhtanov, V. A.; Dantchenko, A. V. (2017). "Polommatus (Agrodiaetus) australorossicus • A New Butterfly Species from south Russia revealed through Chromosomal and Molecular Analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Novataxa. 11 (4): 769–795. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.20072. PMC 5740405. PMID 29302297. S2CID 28429387. Retrieved 30 November 2017.