Shirozua jonasi

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Shirozua jonasi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Shirozua
Species:
S. jonasi
Binomial name
Shirozua jonasi
(Janson, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Thecla jonasiJanson, 1877

Shirozua jonasi, the orange hairstreak, is a butterfly of the subfamily Lycaeninae. It was described by Edward Wesley Janson in 1877. It is found in the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri), north-eastern China, Korea and Japan. [1] It is widely distributed in the forest belt.

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Above the butterfly is uniformly orange yellow, with only the extreme apex and the tail black. The white discal line is single, and proximally shaded with dark; the discocellular line is likewise dark and single.

Seitz "Z. jonasi Jans. Above uniformly orange-yellow, only the extreme apex and the tail black. Beneath similar to Japonica lutea (Hewitson, 1865), but the white discal line not double, but single, being proximally shaded with dark; the discocellular line likewise dark and single. — In the north of China and Japan; apparently not plentiful,flying about young trees in August." [2]

Adults are on wing from mid-July to the end of August.

The larvae feed on Quercus variabilis , Quercus dentata , Quercus acutissima , Quercus serrata , Castanea crenata , Quercus mongolica , Lachrus tropicalis and Kermes miyasaleii . [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Shirozua Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Adalbert Seitz Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
  3. The Host Genera of Ant-Parasitic Lycaenidae Butterflies: A Review