Polyommatus australorossicus, the South-Russian blue, is a butterfly species in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and Alexander V. Dantchenko in 2017 and is found in southern Russia in the Caucasus Mountains.[1][2]
| Polyommatus australorossicus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Polyommatus |
| Species: | P. australorossicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Polyommatus australorossicus Lukhtanov & Dantchenko, 2017
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References
edit- ^ "New butterfly species discovered in Russia with an unusual set of 46 chromosomes". Phys.org. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ Lukhtanov, V. A.; Dantchenko, A. V. (2017). "Polommatus (Agrodiaetus) australorossicus • A New Butterfly Species from south Russia revealed through Chromosomal and Molecular Analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Novataxa. 11 (4): 769–795. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.20072. PMC 5740405. PMID 29302297. S2CID 28429387. Retrieved 30 November 2017.