LEPIDOPTERA

• S A T Y R I D A E Boisduval, 1833

  • LETHE Hubner, 1819

    
    

    • Lethe marginalis Motschulsky, 1860

Lethe marginalis maacki (Bremer, 1861).

· TYPE LOCALITY. "Khokodody" [Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan].

· RANGE. The Amur reg. and E. China to Korea and Japan.

· DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The Amur and Ussuri regions, represented by the ssp. maacki (Bremer, 1861).

· HABITAT AND BIOLOGY. Flies under the canopy of lowland deciduous forests from July to August. Host plants in Japan (Fukuda et al., 1983): grasses (Miscanthus sinensis, Spodiopogon sibiricus, Scirpus wichurae, Carex).

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