Polyommatus erotides
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| authority = (Staudinger, 1892) Staudinger, 1892
Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 5 (2) : 300-393
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Polyommatus erotides is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Saur, Altai, Siberia , Transbaikalia, Mongolia) that belongs to the blues family.
Taxonomy
Formerly a subspecies of Polyommatus eros.
Description from Seitz
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erotides Stgr. (80 d), from the mountains of Southern Siberia, is a large, blue-green male form, with broad black distal margin to the forewing, into which the deep black veins merge.Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) {{PD-notice}}
Biology
The larva feeds on Fabaceae.