''Erebia iranica '' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(Caucasus North Iran, Turkey) that belongs to the
browns family. ''E. iranica'' Gr.-Grsh. was described as a forma of ''
Erebia tyndarus'' from North Persia. It is often smaller than the nymotypical form of ''tyndarus'', the band of the fore- and hindwing being rather bright russet-red. The subapical ocelli of the forewing are large and bear bright white pupils.
[Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)]
Subspecies
*''E. i. iranica''
*''E. i. sheljuzhkoi''
Warren, 1935 (Caucasus)
See also
*
List of butterflies of Russia
References
External links
Images representing ''Erebia iranica''at
Barcodes of LifeLepidoptera Caucasi
Satyrinae
Butterflies described in 1895
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