Polyommatus artvinensis
| Polyommatus artvinensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. artvinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyommatus artvinensis (Carbonell, 1997)[1] | |
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Polyommatus artvinensis is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Carbonell in 1997. It is found in Turkey, where it is only known from the north-eastern Pontic chain, in the provinces of Erzurum and Artvin.
The length of the forewings is 13.5–16 mm. The upperside ground-colour is purplish violet. The underside ground-colour is warm greyish brown, without any or at most a vestigial blue-green basal suffusion.[2]
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