Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Tongeia | |
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Similar Tongeia fischeri fis, Niphanda, Japonica, Antigius, Zizina otis | ||
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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.
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Larva feed on various succulent plants, including Orostachys japonica.
tongeia fischeri in flight
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