Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from the end of June to mid-September.Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.Subspecies
*''Pseudochazara mniszechii mniszechii'' Turkey *''Pseudochazara mniszechii caucasica'' (Lederer, 1864) Erzincan, Erzurum, Gumushane,Description in Seitz
''S. mniszechii'' H.-Schiff. (43 e). Very similar to the preceding S. telephassa'' ">Pseudochazara_thelephassa.html" ;"title="''Pseudochazara thelephassa">S. telephassa'' especially in the female sex but with the reddish yellow band of the forewing with the proximal edge less straight, neither being interrupted below the apical ocellus as in the ''Pseudochazara pelopea">pelopea''- forms , nor strongly constricted as in ''telephassa''. The band of the hindwing more even than in ''telephassa'', almost reaching the costal edge. At the anal angle of the hindwing above there are always 2 distinct small white spots. Underside more uniformly sandy grey or sandy brown in both sexes. Size exactly as in ''telephassa''. East-coast of the Black Sea, and Asia Minor. — In ''herrichii'' [now subspecies ] Stgr., from North Persia and Turkestan, the fringes are white, the bands of the upperside broader and brighter red -yellow; the hindwing beneath grey, the markings being more distinct in the male. 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)Gallery
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