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Gallo's Anomalous Blue

Polyommatus galloi

Classification

Class
Insecta

Ripart's anomalous blue (Polyommatus ripartii) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Southern Europe, Greece and the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Crimea, South-West Siberia, the Altai Mountains and Kazakhstan. Flies in high summer, July to August in hot dry grassy places and slopes with flowers It now includes the former Agrodiaetus galloi (Italy), Agrodiaetus exuberans (Italy), and Agrodiaetus agenjoi (Spain), which used to be considered endemic species with highly restricted distribution ranges, but were then shown to be local populations of P.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Italy · 7