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Polyommatus sagratrox

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Polyommatus

Similar
  
Polyommatus golgus, Polyommatus stoliczkanus, Polyommatus violetae, Polyommatus atlantica, Polyommatus fulgens

Polyommatus (Plebicula) sagratrox, the Sierra de la Sagra blue, is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is endemic to Spain in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Adults are on wing from July (normally) to August. The host plant for the larvae is Anthyllis vulneraria microcephala, an endemic plant from the north-east Andalusia fegion of south-eastern Spain.

Synonyms

  • Plebicula sagratrox Aistleitner, 1986
  • Polyommatus golgus sagratrox (Aistleitner, 1986)
  • Plebicula golgus sagratrox (Aistleitner, 1986)

    • Ecology and distribution

  • Type locality: Sierra de la Sagra in the north-east of the Province of Granada, Spain.
  • Distribution (see Gil-T., F. (2013)): only in four separated and small colonies: Sierra de la Sagra, Sierra de Guillimona and Sierra Seca in the north-eastern Granada province; and Sierra de la Cabrilla in north-eastern Jaén province.
  • Its distribution is the most reduced of all Papilionoidea endemic species of Spain: the total occupied area by the four colonies is 0.82 km2.
  • Altitude of its biotopes: 1900–2300 m (note: altitude very different from Polyommatus golgus: 2500–3200 m).
  • Host plant: Anthyllis vulneraria microcephala, an endemic plant from the north-east Andalusia region, in Spain.

    • Taxonomy

  • Tolman (1994) considers to Polyommatus sagratrox as a subspecies of Polyommatus golgus basing on some questionable and unjustified arguments (see discussion in Gil-T. & Ibáñez (2009)).
  • P. golgus and P. sagratrox show an ecology (altitude of their biotopes, larval host plants, soil substrate, etc.), morphology and ethology very differentiated (see Gil-T (2003, 2013) and Gil-T. & Ibáñez (2009)).

    • References

    Polyommatus sagratrox Wikipedia
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