Polyommatus arasbarani, the Arasbaran anomalous blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Carbonell & Naderi in 2000Carbonell & Naderi, 2000 Contribution à la connaissance du genre Agrodiaetus Hübner (1822), A. arasbarani nouvelle espèce dans le nord-ouest de I'Iran (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae) Linn. belg. 17 (5) : 218-220. It is endemic of southern slope of the Meghri Mountains in ArmeniaButterfly Conservation Armenia https://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/polyommatus-arasbarani.html and nearby Arasbaran Mountains in northern Iran. Armenia is inhabited by subspecies P. a. neglecta (which was initially described as a species, Agrodiaetus neglectus).Tuzov V.K., P.V. Bogdanov, S.V. Churkin, A.L. Devyatkin, A.V. Danchenko, V.S. Murzin, G.D. Samodurov, A.B. Zhdanko. 2000. Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Volume 2: Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, and Lycaenidae. Pensoft Publishers. 581 pp.Dantchenko A. 2000. A new taxon of the genus Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 from the Transcaucasus. Neue Entomologische Nachricten, 48: 69-71. It inhabits forests alternated with dry steppe-like areas at elevations of 1700–2000 m above sea level. The species is included in the Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia as endangered EN B1a+B2a, although in the book it is still called with the invalid name - Agrodiaetus neglectus.Danchenko A. Agrodiaetus neglectus. 2010. In: Aghasyan A. and Kalashyan M. (eds). The Red Book of Animals of the Republic of Armenia. Asoghik. Available at http://www.mnp.am/red_book_fauna/eng/a144.html
Subspecies Polyommatus arasbarani arasbarani (northern Iran) Polyommatus arasbarani neglecta Dantchenko, 2000 (southern Armenia)
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