Praephilotes anthracias

Praephilotes anthracias

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae

Praephilotes anthracias is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is known from Kazakhstan (desert tracts of Atyrau Region, southern Altai, near Lake Zaysan, south of the Ili River valley, Baygakum), Uzbekistan (valley of the river Syr Darya), Turkmenistan (Krasnovodsk, Ashgabat, Small Balkhan), Tajikistan (Vakhsh valley, Kafirnigan), western China. The most northern locality is known from Lake Elton neighborhoods.

Distribution

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Praephilotes anthracias

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