LEPIDOPTERA

• S A T Y R I D A E Boisduval, 1833

  • TRIPHYSA Zeller, 1850

    
    

    • Triphysa nervosa Motschulsky, 1866

Triphysa nervosa Motschulsky, 1866

· TYPE LOCALITY. Unknown, probably the Amur region. In the original description, the indication of "Japan" as the type locality is wrong, because this species does not occur there.

· SYNONYMS: albovenosa Erschoff, 1885.

· RANGE. N. Siberia to the Chukot Peninsula; Transbaikalia, the Far East, the Amur and Ussuri regions; from Mongolia across N. China to N. Korea.

· DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The nominate subspecies is distributed in Transbaikalia and the Amur region; in Yakutia - ssp. sacha Korshunov, 1996; the northern areas (the Magadan region and the Chukot Peninsula) are populated by the ssp. tscherskii Grum-Grshimailo, 1899.

· HABITAT AND BIOLOGY. The nominate form flies over plains with steppe and forest-steppe vegetation, while the ssp. tscherskii is found in light coniferous forests and tundras of NE. Siberia. Host plant (Gorbunov, Korshunov, 1995): Carex. Flight period: May-June, in the mountains June-July.

· SIMILAR SPECIES. T. dohrnii: fringes white; UNS ocelli developed.

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