Lopinga deidamia

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Lopinga deidamia
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Lopinga deidamia sachalinensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lopinga
Species:
L. deidamia
Binomial name
Lopinga deidamia
(Eversmann, 1851)
Synonyms
  • Hipparchia deidamiaEversmann, 1851
  • Crebeta deidamia
  • Lasiommata deidamia
  • Pararge deidamia

Lopinga deidamia is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from the Urals to southern Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan. [1]

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Description

The wingspan is 45–55 mm. Seitz describes it thus-P. deidamia Ev. (menetriesi Brem.) (45 f). The male above somewhat similar to the menara male, the female with white spots proximally to as well as below the apical ocellus: both sexes recognizable by the underside, which is dark blackish brown and without the dentate hues found in the megera- maera -groups of forms. Very widely distributed, from the Ural throughout Asia, Siberia, Tibet. China and Japan. — In Korea occurs the dark form erebina Btlr., which is characterized by the more pointed forewing and strongly enlarged apical ocellus. — More singly, in some countries restricted to mountainous districts, the insect flying under trees and on road-sides, settling at puddles, the flight being weak and lazy. In the south of its area in May and again from August onward , in certain districts of China and in Amurland in July:usually rare. As in the case of maera a whole series of special forms might be separated in accordance with locality and season. [2]

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to August in one or two generations per year. [3]

The larvae feed on Agrostis , Calamagrostis and Elytrigia species. [4]

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Lopinga deidamia interrupta

Subspecies

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References

  1. IUCN Red list
  2. Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Russian Insects
  4. "Lopinga Moore, 1893" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms