Mycalesis francisca

Mycalesis francisca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Mycalesis
Species:	M. francisca
Binomial name
Mycalesis francisca (Stoll, [1780]) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio franciscaStoll, [1780] Mycalesis perdiccasHewitson, 1862 Mycalesis magnaLeech, [1892] Mycalesis penicillataPoujade, 1884 Mycalesis perdiccas var. horishanaMatsumura, 1909 Mycalesis sanatana var. coronensisMatsumura, 1909 Mycalesis sanatana gomiaFruhstorfer, 1908 Mycalesis vercellaFruhstorfer, 1911 Mycalesis latistriataMell, 1942 Mycalesis francisca formosana f. hirtiaFruhstorfer, 1908 Mycalesis sanatanaMoore, [1858] Mycalesis gopaC. & R. Felder, [1867] Mycalesis albofasciataTytler, 1914

Mycalesis francisca is an East Palearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in China, Japan, Korea, India (Assam), Burma and Indochina

The larva feeds on Imperata cylindrica , Miscanthus sinensis , Setaria palmifolia and Oplismenus undulatifolius

Subspecies

• M. f. francisca
• M. f. uliaFruhstorfer, 1908 (northern Vietnam)
• M. f. formosanaFruhstorfer, 1908 (Taiwan)
• M. f. sanatanaMoore, [1858] (India to Burma, Thailand, Laos, South Yunnan)
• M. f. albofasciataTytler, 1914 (Manipur, Burma, Northwest Yunnan)
• M. f. arisanaSonan, 1931 (Taiwan)
• M. f. perdiccasHewitson, [1862] (Japan)

References

1. "Mycalesis Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Images representing Mycalesis at Consortium for the Barcode of Life