Chazara

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Satyrina
Genus: Chazara
Species: C. bischoffi – C. briseis – C. eitschbergeri – C. enervata – C. heydenreichi – C. kaufmanni – C. mortezai – C. persephone – C. prieuri – C. rangontavica – C. staudingeri
Name

Chazara Moore, 1893

Type species: Papilio briseis Linnaeus, 1764
Synonyms

Philareta Moore, 1893
Type species: Satyrus anthe var. hanifa Herrich-Schäffer, 1850 by original designation.

Chazara briseis female and male

References
Additional references

Bolshakov, L.V., 2007: Notes on some controversial taxa of Lepidoptera from European Russia, with critical remarks about <<A catalogue of butterflies of the ex-USSR, with remarks on systematics and nomenclature>> by. S.K. Korb. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 3 (1): 75–80. Abstract: [1].
Korb, S., 2010. A new subspecies of Chazara heydenreichi (Lederer, 1853) (Lepidoptera: Satyridae) from Karaganda region (Kazakhstan). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 6 (1): 107–108.
Lukhtanov, V.A. 1999. Chazara eitschbergeri spec. nov., eine neue Satyriden-Art aus Kirgisien (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrini). Atalanta 30(1/4): 119–123. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Lukhtanov, V.A., 1999: Neue taxa und synonyma zentralasiatischer tagfalter (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Atalanta 30 (1/4): 135–150.

Chazara is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae of the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). The most well-known is the hermit butterfly (C. briseis). C. briseis can be found as far west as Morocco and as far eastward as Mongolia. They inhabit the Tian Shan mountain range of Central Asia, also known as the Celestial Mountains, which are fabled in Daoist literature as the place where the Goddess of the West attends to the Peaches of Immortality.
Selected species

Chazara bischoffii (Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]) – orange hermit
Chazara briseis (Linnaeus, 1764) – hermit butterfly
Chazara egina Staudinger, [1892] – Anatolian witch
Chazara eitschbergeri Lukhtanov, 1999
Chazara enervata (Alpheraky, 1881)
Chazara heydenreichi (Lederer, 1853)
Chazara kaufmanni (Erschoff, 1874)
Chazara persephone (Hübner, [1805]) – dark rockbrown
Chazara prieuri (Pierret, 1837) – southern hermit
Chazara rangontavica Shchetkin, 1981
Chazara staudingeri (Bang-Haas, 1882)