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Scarce Large Blue

Maculinea teleius

Classification

Class
Insecta

The scarce large blue (Phengaris teleius) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, northern Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine and East across the Palearctic to Japan. The species was first described by Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser in 1779.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 3,707Netherlands · 708Germany · 624France · 2