Pseudochazara mamurra, the buff Asian grayling, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae."Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms It is confined to Albania, Greece, and Turkey. The habitat consists of slopes in steep river valleys.

It is a very variable species.

Flight period The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to August.

Food plants Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies Pseudochazara mamurra mamurra (Turkey) Pseudochazara mamurra amymone Brown, 1976 - Brown's grayling (Greece and Albania) Pseudochazara mamurra birgit Gross, 1978 (Turkey)

Pseudochazara mamurra amymone is alternatively treated as a full species.

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References

Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara mamurra