Tongeia fischeri

Tongeia fischeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Tongeia
Species: T. fischeri
Binomial name
Tongeia fischeri
(Eversmann, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Lycaena fischeri Eversmann, 1843
  • Everes fischeri
  • Cupido fischeri

Tongeia fischeri, the Fischer's blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in south-eastern Europe, the southern Ural, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, south-western and southern Siberia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Sakhalin), Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.

Larva feed on various succulent plants, including Orostachys japonica.

Subspecies

References


    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/16/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.