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(
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Hesselbarth
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1995
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;
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Tshikolovets
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. 2014
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can be easily distinguished from the sole blue
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species
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inhabiting the region in question,
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, by wide blue fields bearing dark postdiscal spots on the dorsal side of the forewing of the male combined with reduced submarginal pattern lacking orange scales on the ventral side of both sexes (
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depicted in
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Hesselbarth
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and from the Iranian specimens (
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Tshikolovets
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The genus
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Pratt
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. 2011
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Shapoval
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Krupitsky
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Krupitsky
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). In the Western Palaearctic
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, 17 species of the so-called “green
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” species, members of the currently considered nominate subgenus
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, are recorded. Of them, 12 species are known from the Iranian Plateau, which is believed to be the biodiversity center of this genus (
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Krupitsky
<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FC242F8A414EA9C7" box="[978,1026,151,175]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">et al</emphasis>
. 2022
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). In
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, two species from this genus are recorded so far:
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FE582FAE470BA9BB" box="[430,583,187,211]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">C. danchenkoi</emphasis>
Zhdanko
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and
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FD292FAE4665A9BB" box="[735,809,187,211]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">C. rubi</emphasis>
(Linnaeus) (
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)
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. Another species of the genus widely distributed in adjacent regions of
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and
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,
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FCBB2FF246FAA99F" box="[845,950,223,247]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">C. paulae</emphasis>
Pfeiffer, 1932
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, has never been recorded from
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. It is endemic to the South-Western Asian mountains from Western
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to Transcaucasia, Zagros, Alborz and Kopet Dagh Mts. (
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Krupitsky
<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FE222E3A4748A857" box="[468,516,295,319]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">et al</emphasis>
. 2015
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). In Eastern
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and Western
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, it is represented by the subspecies
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B91410EFFF6FFB9FF312E7D4591A89C" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1003]" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">
The genus
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FECB2E6244E9A8EF" box="[317,421,368,391]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">Turanana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is represented by about 20 species distributed mostly in South-Western and Central Asia, with only three species known from Eastern
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and Western
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(
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Hesselbarth
<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FC0D2E864161A8C3" box="[1019,1069,403,427]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">et al</emphasis>
. 1995
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;
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Tshikolovets
<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FAE32E86400BA8C3" box="[1301,1351,403,427]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">et al</emphasis>
. 2014
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). According to the published data, in
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, this genus is represented by a single species,
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FBA42EAA419BA8A7" box="[1106,1239,439,463]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">T. endymion</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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The presence of
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FE802D124492AB7F" box="[374,478,511,535]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">C. paulae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
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is expected, following its distribution in
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and
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close to Iraqi borders (see distribution map in
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).
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<emphasis id="B95A9D1CFFF6FFB9FDD12D364672AB53" box="[551,830,547,571]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="149">Turanana cytis kurdistana</emphasis>
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is restricted to the Zagros Mountains of
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and several localities in
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and
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provinces of
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; therefore, this record from
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expands the distribution of this species by more than
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. Both species were observed at midday actively flying and feeding nectar on
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(L.) Desv. (
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), the host plant of
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, in the alpine region of the Halgurd Mountain at an elevation above 3000 meters above sea level (
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).
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Alpine zones in
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are restricted to a few ranges and only cover about
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of the country, which is part of the Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecoregion; it is dominated by plants of the families
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Poaceae (
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. Species of these families are host plants, source of nectar or shelter for various lycaenid species. Previous studies in
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were mainly focused on lower elevations below
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a.s.l., with the maximum elevation surveyed in
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at
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a.s.l. (Zewe), followed by
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a.s.l. (Gara Mountain), and
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a.s.l. (Dole Sakran) (
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Othman
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;
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Said
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;
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,
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Khudhur
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). Therefore, further study on the subalpine and subalpine regions of
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is necessary and recommended.
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