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): <i>Callophrys chalybeitincta </i>(Sovinsky, 1905), <i>Neolycaena rhymnus </i>(Eversmann, 1832), <i>Lycaena thersamon </i>(Esper, [1784]), <i>Aricia agestis </i>([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775), <i>Aricia artaxerxes </i>(Fabricius, 1793), <i>Aricia teberdina </i>(Sheljuzhko, 1934), <i>Eumedonia eumedon </i>(Esper, [1780]), <i>Polyommatus coelestinus </i>(Eversmann, 1843).