The developmental stages of some blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) of Russian South
The authors studied the developmental stages of eight species of blue butterflies (Lycaenidae) that inhibit the south of European part of Russia (Rostov-on- Don Region and the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range): Callophrys chalybeitincta (Sovinsky, 1905), Neolycaena rhymnus (Eversmann, 1832), Lycaena thersamon (Esper, [1784]), Aricia agestis ([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775), Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793), Aricia teberdina (Sheljuzhko, 1934), Eumedonia eumedon (Esper, [1780]), Polyommatus coelestinus (Eversmann, 1843).