Japonica lutea

Japonica lutea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Japonica lutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Japonica
Species:
J. lutea
Binomial name
Japonica lutea
(Hewitson, 1865) [1]

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Z. lutea Hew. (74 f). The outer margin of the wings strongly rounded. particularly in the female; hind wing with a long tail. Honey-yellow, the forewing with a broad black distal border. Underside with a white submarginal line, which separates the disc from the orange-red distal margin; on the disc white- edged bands, a short similar hand on the cross-veins of the forewing. In Amurland and Japan. — Larva on Quercus mongolica, very frequently infested with the larvae of Diptera. The butterflies occur in August on wide roads in forests of high trees and also in bush-woods; they are rather plentiful in many places. The Continental specimens do not differ from Japanese ones; the black border of the forewing varies rather strongly in width among the individuals from the same locality.[2]

Biology

The larva on feeds on Quercus mongolica , other Quercus and Cyclobalanopsis glauca.

  • Seitz 74f
  • Japonica lutea in Rhopalocera nihonica

Subspecies
  • Japonica lutea lutea Japan.
  • Japonica lutea adusta (Riley, 1939) Sichuan, East Tibet
  • Japonica lutea dubatolovi Fujioka, 1993 Amur Oblast, Ussuri.
  • Japonica lutea gansuensis Murayama, 1991
  • Japonica lutea patungkoanui Murayama, 1956 Taiwan.
  • Japonica lutea tatsienluica (Riley, 1939) Szechuan.

See also

References
  1. Hewitson, 1865 Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)


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