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Species of butterfly

Aricia chinensis
Aricia chinensis myrmecias in Seitz 80a
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Subtribe: Polyommatina
Genus: Aricia
Species: A. chinensis
Binomial name
Aricia chinensis
(Murray, )

Aricia chinensis is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Central Asia (mountains), Mongolia, West China, Central China, Northeast China, Korea) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description from Seitz

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Above like astrarche, but the fringes spotted. Beneath the reddish yellow submarginal band is neither interrupted nor proximally dentate, being edged with short black lunules and standing somewhat further away from the margin. In North China and Manchuria. — myrmecias Christ. (80 a) is a form from Turkestan with the macular band pale yellow instead of reddish yellow. In May, found on flowers of Centaurea. The larva feeds on Leguminosae.

Subspecies

  • A. c. chinensis Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, NE.China
  • A. c. sibiricana (Kozhanchikov, 1928) South Siberia (West of Baikal)
  • A. c. myrmecias (Christoph, 1877) Turan

See also

References

  1. Murray, Rev. R. P., 1873. Descriptions of new Species of Exotic Rhopalocera. Ent. mon. Mag. 10: 107–108.
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
Taxon identifiers
Aricia chinensis


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