Kretania trappi (Vérity, 1927)


Switzerland, Simplon


Habitat
  • Mountain meadows
  • Sunny mountainsides
31 mm
Kleiner Tragant-Bläuling
Alpine zephyr blue
Azuré des astragales
Argo di Trapp
Alpensaffierblauwtje
Modraszek trappi

Primary host-plants

FamilyLatin nameVernacular name
FabaceaeAstragalus centroalpinus
Astragalus exscapus

Synonyms and other combinations

Plebejus lycidasTrapp, 1863
Plebejus trappiVérity, 1927

Kretania trappi is a member of the clade Kretania pylaon

SpeciesAuthor
Kretania allardii(Oberthür, 1874)
Kretania beaniBálint & Johnson, 1997
Kretania hespericus(Rambur, [1839])
Kretania martini(Allard, 1867)
Kretania nichollae(Elwes, 1901)
Kretania philbyi(Graves, 1925)
Kretania pylaon(Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1832)
Kretania sephirus(Frivaldszky, 1835)
Kretania trappi(Vérity, 1927)
Plebejides klausrosei(Bálint, [1993])
Plebejides patriarcha(Bálint, [1992])
Plebejides usbekus(Forster, 1939)
Plebejus zephyrinus(Christoph, 1884)
Plebejus (Plebejides) modica(Vérity, 1935)
Plebejus (Plebejides) stekolnikoviStradomsky & Tikhonov, 2015
Distribution
Images
Female, underside.

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Italy
Adult, underside.

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Italy, Val di Cogne
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