Northern brown argus
species of insect
The northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic realm.
Subspecies
A. a. allous (Geyer, [1836]) Alps, northern Europe
A. a. hakutozana (Matsumura, 1927) North Korea
A. a. horkei Høegh-Guldberg, 1973 Öland & Gotland, Sweden
A. a. inhonora Jachontov, 1909 "Rossia [Russia]centrali et orientali"
A. a. lyngensis Høegh-Guldberg, 1966 Scandinavia
A. a. lepsinskana (Obraztsov, 1935) Dzhungarsky Alatau
A. a. mandzhuriana (Obraztsov, 1935) eastern Amur, Ussuri
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