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First record of the Plebejus christophi (Staudinger, 1874) species group in Europe with description of a new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Previously unknown geographically isolated populations of recently described species from northwestern Kazakhstan, P. karinae Churkin & Krupitsky 2025, are discovered in Astrakhan Oblast, Lower Volga Region, Russia. A new subspecies, P. karinae artifex ssp. nov., is described, being the first record of the mostly Central Asian desert P. christophi (Staudinger, 1874) species group from Russia and Europe. Compared to the nominotypical subspecies, the new subspecies differs in grey ventral side of the wings, bright reddish elements of the submarginal pattern of the ventral side of the wings, darker dorsal side of the wings in males and brown dorsal side of the wings lacking blue colouration in females.

Source: Zootaxa

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.2.9

Authors: SERGEI V. CHURKIN, GEORGE A. LEKAREV, ANATOLY V. KRUPITSKY

Institutions: Natural History Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Language: English

Topic: Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4414222468

FWCI: 0.552

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