Pseudochazara schahrudensis or Shahrud 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 Bitlis, Hakkari, Van, Şırnak in Turkey; to the Caucasus to the eastern Alborz.
Habitat In Armenia the species occupies dry clayey and stony habitats including semi-deserts and mountain steppes at 1000–2500 metres above sea level.
Flight period The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to September.
Food plants Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies Pseudochazara schahrudensis schahrudensis Turkey, Armenia, and Dagestan Pseudochazara schahrudensis nukatli (Bogdanov, 2000) Verkhny (near) Gunib. Nukatl' Mts – Dagestan
References
External links Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara schahrudensis