Pseudochazara geyeri, the Grey Asian 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 Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, eastern Turkey and south-western Transcaucasia.
Description in Seitz S. geyeri H.-Schiff. (43c). Recalling Hipparchia autonoe, but the upperside is not so dark; the ground-colour is yellowish grey, the markings of the underside distinctly shining through and the dark veins being quite plain. Underside of forewing light, feebly shaded with yellowish; the hindwing beneath coarsely marmorated and white-veined, bearing beyond the middle a light band which is interrupted above and below the apex of the cell. — On the east coast of the Black Sea, in Asia Minor, Armenia and Kurdistan, in July and August, very abundant.Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
Flight period The species is univoltine and on wing from late June to September.
Food plants Larvae feed on grasses.
Subspecies Pseudochazara geyeri geyeri Pseudochazara geyeri karsicola Gross, 1978 (Armenian Highland) Pseudochazara geyeri occidentalis (Rebel & Zerny, 1931) (Albania)
References
Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Pseudochazara geyeri