Scarce large blue

Scarce large blue
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Phengaris
Species:
P. teleius
Binomial name
Phengaris teleius
Distribution map
Synonyms
  • Glaucopsyche teleius
  • Maculinea teleius (Bergsträsser, 1779)
  • Papilio teleius Bergsträsser, [1779]
  • Papilio diomedes Rottemburg, 1775 (preocc.)
  • Papilio telegonus Bergsträsser, [1779]
  • Papilio arctophylas Bergsträsser, [1779]
  • Papilio arctophonus Bergsträsser, [1779]
  • Papilio euphemus Hübner, 1800
  • Lycaena obscurata Staudinger, 1887
  • Lycaena splendens Kohzantshikov, 1924
  • Maculinea teleius Verity, 1943: 144
  • Maculinea beleius [sic], D'Abrera, 1993
  • Phengaris teleius (Bergsträsser), Fric et al., 2007

The scarce large blue (Phengaris teleius) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, northern Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine and East across the Palearctic to Japan. The species was first described by Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser in 1779.

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