Appearance
''T. callimachus'' Ev. Above bright fiery cinnabar-red, margins and base of wings black, fringes chequered with brown.Hindwing beneath earth-brown, fasciated with dark brown and minutely dotted with black. Coasts of the Black Sea, Persia and Ferghana. — In the form ''dentata'' Stgr., from northern Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, the black distal margin of the wings is very strongly dentate and the hindwing beneath is grey-brown.
Larva reddish yellow-brown, with dark dorsal line and pale lateral one, between which there is a dark stripe composed of small oblique spots; on Astragalus physodes. The butterflies in April and May on hills, not rare.
The wingspan is 18–23 mm.
Naming
*''Tomares callimachus callimachus''⤷ ''Tomares callimachus tauricus'' Korb & Yakovlev, 1998
Habitat
The species inhabits semi-deserts and arid mountain steppes. It occupies an elevation range from 1000 to 2000 m above sea level. The butterfly flies from late March to early June depending on latitude and elevation.Food
The larvae feed on the ''Astragalus'' species ''A. physodes'' and ''A. vulpinus''.References:
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