''Pseudochazara alpina'' is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

."''Pseudochazara'' de Lesse, 1951"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' It is confined to the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range ...

in Dagestan.

Flight period

The species is

univoltine Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year. The term is most often applied to insects, and is particularly in use in sericulture, where silkworm varieties vary in their voltinism. ...

, being on wing from July to August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

*''Pseudochazara alpina alpina'' *''Pseudochazara alpina guriensis'' (Staudinger, 1878) Akhaltsikhe, Georgia *''Pseudochazara alpina rjabovi'' (Sheljuzhko, 1935) Untsukul - Chirkata pass, Dagestan

References

External links

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - ''Pseudochazara alpina''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7254609 Pseudochazara Butterflies described in 1878 Taxa named by Otto Staudinger