- Source: Aricia chinensis
Aricia chinensis is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Central Asia (mountains), Mongolia, West China, Central China, Northeast China, Korea) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description from Seitz
Above like astrarche, but the fringes spotted. Beneath the reddish yellow submarginal band is neither interrupted nor proximally dentate, being edged with short black lunules and standing somewhat further away from the margin. In North China and Manchuria. — myrmecias Christ. (80 a) is a form from Turkestan with the macular band pale yellow instead of reddish yellow. In May, found on flowers of Centaurea. The larva feeds on Leguminosae.
Subspecies
A. c. chinensis Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, NE.China
A. c. sibiricana (Kozhanchikov, 1928) South Siberia (West of Baikal)
A. c. myrmecias (Christoph, 1877) Turan
See also
List of butterflies of Russia
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Aricia chinensis
- Aricia (butterfly)
- List of butterflies of Russia
- List of butterflies of China (Lycaenidae)
- List of butterflies of the Korean Peninsula
- List of least concern arthropods
- List of butterflies of Nepal
- Erronea
- List of data deficient insects
- List of least concern insects
