LEPIDOPTERA

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

  • POLYGONIA Hubner, [1818]

    
    

    • Polygonia c-aureum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Polygonia c-aureum (Linnaeus, 1758)

•TYPE LOCALITY. «Asia».

•SYNONYM: angelica (Cramer, 1782).

• RANGE. Amur and Ussuri regions; NW. China, Korea, Japan.

•DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. This species has two seasonal, superficially different forms, summer and autumnal. The latter has been described as pryeri Janson, 1878.

•HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Open places in broadleaved forest. Flight period: May to September, in two generations. Host plants in Japan (Fukuda et al., 1984): Humnlopsis scandens and Canncibis saliva; in the Ussuri region (Dantchenko & Nikolaevsky, in press): Humulopsis cordtfolius. Oviposition solitarily on leaves and buds. Each larva building a nest from a leaf. Hibernation imaginal.

•SIMILAR SPECIES. Polygonia c-album: UPF without blue spots.

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