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LEPIDOPTERA

Vanessa indica (Herbst, 1794)
Vanessa indica (Herbst, 1794)

•TYPE LOCALITY.India.

•SYNONYM: calliroe Hubner, 1806.

•RANGE. Asia from N. India to Japan and from Kamchatka to Indonesia (Sulawesi); Canary Islands, southern Spain.

•DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. Transbaikalia, Ussuri and Amur regions. Migrating specimens often occurring up to Lake Baikal in the west and to Yakutia and Kamchatka in the north.

•HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Hedges, meadows or glades in the belt of deciduous forest. Flight period: July to September and, after hibernation, April to May. Host plant in the Ussuri region (Dantchenko & Nikolaevsky, in press): Urtica angustifolia, larva living solitarily in a convolute leaf, pupating on the host plant.

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