Plebejus ferganus ( Staudinger, 1881 )

Tshikolovets, Vadim, 2017, New taxa and new records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Afghanistan, Zootaxa 4358 (1), pp. 107-124 : 115

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049317
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scientific name	Plebejus ferganus ( Staudinger, 1881 )
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Plebejus ferganus ( Staudinger, 1881)

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Material examined. ♀ with the following labels “ Afghanistan, Bala Quran, Anjuman Valley , N.E . Afghanistan, 10500 ft, 12– 21.7.1963, Colin Wyatt ”, “ Lycaides idas L. ssp. ♀ det. W. Forster 1965” ( SMNK) .

Distribution range of species. Afghanistan (first record), western China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Comment. this species was once recorded from Afghanistan by Samodurov (2000) but this record was not based on reliable material (Tuzov pers. comm.).

References

Samodurov, G. D. (2000) Family Lycaenidae: Vacciniina. In: Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and Adjacent Territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Vol. 2. Pensoft, Sofia, Moscow, pp. 177 - 180.

Staudinger, O. (1881) Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Central-Asiens. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 42 (7 / 9), 253 - 300.