LEPIDOPTERA

• H E S P E R I I D A E Latreille, 1809

  • OCHLODES Scudder, 1872

    
    

    • Ochlodes ochracea (Bremer, 1861)

Ochlodes ochracea (Bremer, 1861)

• TYPE LOCALITY. "Ussuri-Mundung" [delta of Ussuri River near Khabarovsk].

• SYNONYMS: rikuchina Butler, 1878.

• RANGE. The Amur basin, SE. China, Japan.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The S. Amur and Ussuri regions. The species seems rather constant in external characters.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Forest edges and clearings. Flight period: end of July to August in a single generation. Host plants in Japan (Fukuda et al., 1984): Carex, Calamagrostis, Brachypodium.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 1. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 1997