Polyommatus loewii
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Polyommatus loewii, the large jewel blue, [2] [3] is a species of blue butterfly found in South East Asia.
Range
The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka and in India from South India to Orissa, and, in the north from Murree to Kumaon [4] The range extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Java.[2]
Subspecies
- Polyommatus loewii loewii (Armenia: highland)
- Polyommatus loewii afghana (Howarth & Povolny, 1976) (Afghanistan)
- Polyommatus loewii antilibanotica (Hemming, 1929)
- Polyommatus loewii dzhemagati (Sheljuzhko, 1934) (Caucasus Major)
- Polyommatus loewii hissarica (Shchetkin, 1963) (Ghissar)
- Polyommatus loewii laura (Evans, 1932)
- Polyommatus loewii schwingenschussi (Pfeiffer, 1937) (Talysh Mountains)
- Polyommatus loewii uranicola (Walker, 1870) (Jordan, Egypt, the Sinai, the Negev, central Saudi Arabia, Oman)
Status
Not Rare.[4]
See also
Cited references
- ↑ Polyommatus, funet.fi
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Polyommatus genus.
- ↑ Card for Polyommatus loewii in LepIndex. Accessed 14 Jun 2007.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H85.16, pp 299.
References
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
- Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
- Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
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