LEPIDOPTERA

• N Y M P H A L I D A E Swainson, 1827

  • CLOSSIANA Reuss, 1920

    
    

    • Clossiana iphigenia (Graeser, 1888)

Clossiana iphigenia (Graeser, 1888)

• TYPE LOCALITY. «Nicol[ajefsk]» [Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, Amur region, Russia].

• RANGE. E. Amur and Ussuri regions, Sakhalin; NE. China, Japan.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The mainland part of the distribution area is inhabited by the nominotypical subspecies; in Sakhalin, the ssp. alpharatoria Korb, 1997 (= sachalinensis (Matsumura, 1911, nom. praeoccup.) is known to occur, which is superficially very close to the nominotypical one.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Wet bottomland or seaside meadows. Flight period: May to August. Host plants in Japan (Fukuda et al., 1984): Viola selkirkii, V. grypoceras.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Clossiana euphrosyne: mother-of-pearl spot at base of UNH present. C. selene, C. perryi: discal band on UNH with three mother-of-pearl spots. C. oscarus, C. thore: discal band on UNH without mother-of-pearl spots.

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