Polyommatus eros

Taxobox | name = Common Meadow Blue
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Polyommatus"
species = "P. eros"
binomial = "Polyommatus eros"
binomial_authority = (Ochsenheimer, 1808)

The Eros blue "Polyommatus eros"Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/Polyommatus/index.html|Page on "Polyommatus" genus.] ] [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=205925.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3deros%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3deros%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "Polyommatus eros" in LepIndex. Accessed 14 Jun 2007.] ] is a species of blue butterfly found in Europe. It is also called as the Common Meadow Blue.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Europe, specifically along the Pyrenees, Alps and the Apennines.

Cited references

Taxonomy

The "eros" species earlier comprised a large number of subpecies which extended across the Himalayas and the Central asian highlands. Many of the subspecies include those occurring in India have now been hived off into separate species.

ee also

*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

* Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] .
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.