''Pseudochazara mamurra'', the buff Asian grayling, 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

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

, and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys. It is a very variable species.

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. ...

and is on wing from June to August.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

*''Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra'' (

) *''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' Brown, 1976 - Brown's grayling (

and

) *''Pseudochazara mamurra birgit'' Gross, 1978 (

) ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' is alternatively treated as a full species.

Gallery

Image:Pseudochazara_amymone.jpg, ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' Image:Pseudochazara_amymone_upper_and_under.jpg, ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' upperside and underside Image:Pseudochazara_amymone_variation.jpg, ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' variation Image:Pseudochazara_amymone_copula.jpg, ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' mating Image:Pseudochazara amymone caught by a crab spider.jpg, ''Pseudochazara mamurra amymone'' caught by a crab spider

References

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - ''Pseudochazara mamurra''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3348703 Pseudochazara Butterflies described in 1852