Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic

Chazara heydenreichi (Lederer, 1853)

Type locality: "...in den Vorbergen des Altai zwischen Ustkamenogorsk und Ustbuchtarminsk am Irtisch". [Foothills of the Altai between Ust-Kamenogorsk and Ust-Bukhtarminsk, E. Kazakhstan].

Range: From Hindu Kush and the W. Himalaya across Middle Asia and Kazakhstan to the S. Altai.

Habitat: Stony slopes with thin vegetation as well as mountain ridges at 1,000-3,700 mtrs

Flight Period: June to August

Subspecies:

ssp. hegesander (Fruhstorfer, 1910) - Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian-Shan; Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan;

ssp. heydenreichi (Lederer, 1853) - Saur and Tarbagatai, Kazakhstan, the S. Altai;

ssp. nana Rühl, 1895 (= kullmanni Wyatt et Omoto, 1966) - the W. Pamirs, Ghissar, S. Ghissar, Darvaz, Altai

Kyrghyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan - Hindu-Kush - Panjshir Valley - Parian at 2,700mtrs .

ssp. shandura (Marshall, 1882) Kyrghyzstan - Shandura Pass

Note: ssp. nana Rühl, 1895 (=kullmanni Wyatt & Omoto, 1966) – W-part of the PATCA-KG-area (Toropov & Zhdanko 2006; p. 372: map). Herewith there are reported two new important additions for the distribution revealed: Kok-Kiik River valley (FDF-0806-1) and Kyrgyz Kashgaria (FDF-0722-2).

!– ssp. «shandura (Marshall, 1882)» – was indicated for the PATCA-KG-area in the Cadastre (Vol. 3, 1996; p. 228), but later its presence in regional fauna was not confirmed (Toropov & Zhdanko 2006).