LEPIDOPTERA

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

  • ISSORIA Hiibner, [1819]

    
    

    • Issoria eugenia (Eversmann, 1847)

Issoria eugenia (Eversmann, 1847)

• TYPE LOCALITY. «...in provincia Irkutzkiensis» [Irkutsk Region, Russia].

• RANGE. From the Polar Urals to Kamchatka in the north to montane tundra and Tibet in the south.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. Individual variability is not so great. Besides the nominotypical subspecies distributed in the mountains of S. Transbaikalia and probably also in the Sayan Mts., central Siberia and the Far East including Kamchatka are inhabited by the ssp. vega (Christoph, 1889) (TL: middle flow region of Lena River). From the Altais, the ssp. montana (O. Bang-Haas, 1906) has been described. In China, the following taxa have been described: rhea (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) (TL: Amdo); genia (Fruhstorfer, 1904) (TL: W. China); fulgens (O. Bang-Haas, 1927) (TL: Kansu); rheaoides Reuss, 1925 (TL: Szetschuan).

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Alpine and subalpine meadows up to 3,000 m a.s.l. (in Tibet up to 4,000 m a.s.l.), different kinds of tundra. Flight period: June to August, depending on altitude.

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