Pseudochazara graeca

Pseudochazara graeca is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. In Greece it is confined to Mount Parnassus, Mount Olympus, Mount D'rfis, Mount Chelmos, Mount Panakhaikon, Mount Menalon, Mount Mainalo, Mount Taygetus and Katara Pass in the Pindus Mountains. In North Macedonia it is found on Pelister.

Description
graeca Stgr. (44a), from Greece, is still darker and moreover rather considerably smaller than the previous forms [ of Pseudochazara mamurra].

Flight period
The species is univoltine and is on wing from mid-July to late August.

Food plants
Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies

 * Pseudochazara graeca graeca Mount Parnassos, Mount Timfrstos
 * Pseudochazara graeca apollo (Gross, 1978) Mount Chelmos
 * Pseudochazara graeca coutsis (Brown, 1977) Mount Smolikas, Timfi Mountains and Katara Pass
 * Pseudochazara graeca pelops (Gross, 1978) Mount Taygetus