Rimisia miris

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Rimisia miris
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miris in Seitz (f)
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Rimisia

Zhdanko, 1994
Species:
R. miris
Binomial name
Rimisia miris
(Staudinger, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Lycaena mirisStaudinger, 1881
  • Polyommatus miris(Staudinger, 1881)

Rimisia miris is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is the sole representative of the monotypic genus Rimisia. [1]

According to Hans Fruhstorfer it is found in "Persia, Turkestan and Ferghana, in May and June". [2] L. miris Stgr. (79 f). Above both sexes black-brown, the female with a red submarginal band on both wings, which is only occasionally obsolescent on the forewing, the underside, which otherwise recalls orion , band also very broad and prominent and hence bears a superficial resemblance to astrarche , in which the ocelli, however, are much less regular in position than in miris. In ab. oblitescens Schultz the ocelli of the hindwing beneath have disappeared except for feeble traces.

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References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Rimisia Zhdanko, 1994". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  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 .