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Clossiana thore (Hubner, [1806])
Clossiana thore (Hubner, [1806])

• TYPE LOCALITY. «Tiroler Alpen» [Austria].

• RANGE. Forest belt of the Palaearctic Region; N. China, Korea, Japan.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. Along with the nominotypical form which populates the central European part, the following subspecies are known from the territones concerned: ssp. exellens (Krulikovsky, 1893) (= splendida (Krulikovsky, 1895)) from the S. European part; ssp. transurdiensis (Sheljuzhko, 1931) from W. Siberia; ssp. borealis (Staudinger, 1861) from the N. European part, N. Siberia, the Far East, including Kamchatka; ssp. hypercala (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (= lacrimosa Korb, 1999) from the Altais, the Sayan and Transbaikalia; ssp. hyperusia (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (= mendionalis (Kardakov, 1928); = brenda Hemming, 1933) from the Amur and Ussuri regions; and ssp. karafutonis (Matsumura, 1919) from Sakhalin Island.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Open places in the forest belt up to 2,000 m a.s.L, more rarely on high bogs. Flight period: June to August. Host plant in Finland (Pekkarinen, 1977): Viola bifolia; in the Urals (Tatarinov, pers. comm.): V. altaica; in Japan (Fukuda et al., 1984): V. selkirkiL

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Clossiana selene, C. perryi, C. euphrosyne, C. iphigenia: discal band of UNH with mother-of-pearl spots. C. angarensis: UNH with a row of distinct, silvery, submarginal spots.

 

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 2. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 2000