Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Polyommatus | |
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Similar Polyommatus bellis, Polyommatus coelestina, Polyommatus admetus | ||
Polyommatus corydonius, the false chalkhill blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. The species is distributed in Caucasus, Transcaucasia, north-eastern Turkey, and north-western Iran. It inhabits a wide variety of grasslands and woodlands. In Armenia it occurs from 1200 to 2000 m above sea level. The known larval host plants of the species in Turkey is Hippocrepis comosa, in the Caucasus - Coronilla varia. The species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List. In Armenia from 2003 to 2013 its population increased.
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