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2. Biologie
2.1. Nahrung der Raupe
- [Fabaceae:] Alhagi sp.
Churkin & Krupitsky (2025: 650) schreiben: "Host plant is Alhagi sp. This species prefers the same habitats as P. argivus and inhabits dry foothills of mountains; rises into the mountains along river valleys."
3. Weitere Informationen
3.1. Taxonomie und Faunistik
Je nach Autor wird Plebejus roxane (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887) als Synonym zu P. argiva gestellt oder nicht. Rajaei & al. (2023: 212) dementieren das Vorkommen von P. argiva im Iran mit den Worten: “The report of P. roxane from prov. Golestan by Wieser et al. (2002) is likely a misidentification of P. christophi. Plebejus argiva is a Central Asian species (type locality: Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan) and does not occur in Iran.”
Churkin & Krupitsky (2025) sehen in "Plebejus roxane eine eigene auf Tadschikistan beschränkte Art: "Dry foothills around the South Tajik Depression (P. christophi lives in deserts and tugai forests along the Amu Darya). It rises in the mountains along the Vakhsh to the Tajikobad region (like other arid species)." Sie vermerken: "Lectotype was designated by Bálint (1999: 55) with the labels “Shir-Abad / 18.05.[18]85/ coll. Gr.-Gr./ Elwes coll./ 1902-85”, deposited in the British Museum, number 265209. Type locality: “Shir-Abad” [Shuarobad, Tadjikistan] (Fig.7). Note. The applying of the names roxane and submontanus were discussed previously (Zhdanko and Churkin 2001). The situation is still not fully clarified, the lectotype is not studied. However, some facts confirmed our opinion about roxane. The figures published by Grum-Grshimailo later (1890, pl. VII – 3 a, b) are not the syntypes but present material from Osh identificated as roxane. The figured pair without any doubts presents a pair of argivus – the nearest relative of roxane (the photo of these figures was republished in: Tshikolovets et al. 2005: XLVII – 13). In addition, our specimens from Shuarobad – TL of roxane – presents typical roxane and have nothing with christophi (Figs 2–3: 22)."
(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)
3.2. Literatur
- Churkin, S.V. & A.V. Krupitsky (2025): Taxonomic review of the Plebejus christophi (Staudinger, 1874) species group from Central Asia with the descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). — Acta Biologica Sibirica, 11: 633–662. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15332744. [zum PDF-Download auf cyberleninka.ru]
- Erstbeschreibung: Grumm-Grshimailo [sic], G. (1887): Bericht über meine Reise in das östliche Buchara. — Mémoires sur les lépidoptéres 3: 357-402. St.-Pétersbourg (M. M. Stassuléwitch). [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
- Rajaei, H. & O. Karsholt (eds.) (2023): Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Iran. — In: Rajaei, H. & O. Karsholt (eds.) (2023): Lepidoptera Iranica. — Integrative Systematics 6 (Special Issue): 121–459. [Zum PDF auf bioone.org]
