Polyommatus achaemenes

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| authority = (Skala, 2002)[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/polyommatus/ "Polyommatus Latreille, 1804"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

| synonyms = *Agrodiaetus achaemenes Skala, 2002

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Polyommatus achaemenes is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Skala in 2002. It is only known from very high altitudes (ranging from 3,800 to 4,000 meters) in the Iranian Zagros Mountains (Kuh-e-Haft, Bakhtiari).[https://web.archive.org/web/20210518162358/http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2003/0278/0278-1.pdf Chromosome differentiation and the radiation of the butterfly subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus) – a molecular phylogenetic approach]

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Category:Butterflies described in 2002

Category:Polyommatus

Category:Butterflies of Asia

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