Araragi enthea

Araragi enthea
Araragi enthea in Seitz
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Araragi
Species:	A. enthea
Binomial name
Araragi enthea (Janson, 1877) [1]

Araragi enthea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description from Seitz

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

Z. enthea Jans. (74 e). Above dark black-brown, beyond the cell two pale spots in Japanese specimens, and two white ones in (Chinese individuals). Underside whitish, with smaller and larger, partly seriated [To arrange in serial order], dark spots, the anal area of the hindwing being orange. — Widely distributed, from West China to Amurland and Japan. Larva according to Graeser uniformly pale green, until July on Juglans mandschurica . The butterfly in July and August, plentiful in certain places. ^[2]

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  Araragi enthea morisonensis
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See also

• List of butterflies of Russia

References

1. Janson, 1877 Notes on Japanese Rhopalocera with the description of new species Cistula ent. 2 : 153-160
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)