Pseudochazara Geyeri
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''Pseudochazara geyeri'', the Grey Asian grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is confined to Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, eastern Turkey and south-western Transcaucasia.


Description in Seitz

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. 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)


Flight period

The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.


Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.


Subspecies

*''Pseudochazara geyeri geyeri'' *''Pseudochazara geyeri karsicola'' Gross, 1978 (Armenian Highland) *''Pseudochazara geyeri occidentalis'' (Rebel & Zerny, 1931) (Albania)


References


Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - ''Pseudochazara geyeri''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3348701 Pseudochazara Butterflies described in 1846 Butterflies of Europe