Luehdorfia chinensis

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Chinese luehdorfia
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Male museum specimen, China
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Luehdorfia
Species:
L. chinensis
Binomial name
Luehdorfia chinensis
Leech, 1893 [1]

Luehdorfia chinensis, the Chinese luehdorfia, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to China.

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Biology

The larvae feed on Asarum species including, Asarum forbesii and Asarum sieboldii . [2] [3]

Ecology and distribution

It is present in Shaanxi and Henan provinces of China. [4]

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References

  1. Leech, J.H. 1893 Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea Volume 2: 491, plate 33, figure 1
  2. Luehdorfia, funet.fi
  3. Lee. C. L. (1978). The early stages of Chinese Rhopalocera-Luehdorfla chinensis Leech (Parnassiidae: Zerynthiinae). Acta Entomologica Sinensis 21: 161-163 (in Chinese).
  4. Luehdorfia, funet.fi