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Issue: Vol. 4555 No. 4: 15 Feb. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.9
Page range: 581–587
Abstract views: 59
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A new subspecies of Glabroculus elvira (Eversmann, 1854) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Dzhungarian Gobi desert, Mongolia

Jubileynyi 14-168, Reutov, Moscow region, 143965, Russia.
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/12, Moscow 119234, Russia.
Lepidoptera Polyommatinae blues systematics zoogeography Palaearctic desert

Abstract

Glabroculus elvira suadela ssp. n. is described from the Dzhungarian Gobi desert. The species was not previously recorded in Mongolia. The new subspecies can be easily differentiated from other known conspecific taxa by the bright shiny upperside in males and contrasting upperside in females, with conspicuous whitish spots.

 

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