Araragi enthea

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Araragi enthea
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Araragi enthea in Seitz
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A. enthea
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Araragi enthea
(Janson, 1877) [1]

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

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Description from Seitz

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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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)