Biology:Araragi enthea

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Araragi enthea
The Macrolepidoptera of the world (Taf. 74) (8145298202).jpg
Araragi enthea in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Araragi
Species:
A. enthea
Binomial name
Araragi enthea
(Janson, 1877) [1]

Araragi enthea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description from Seitz

Z. enthea Jans. (74 e). Above dark black-brown, beyond the cell two pale spots in Japanese specimens, and two white ones in (Chinese individuals). Underside whitish, with smaller and larger, partly seriated [To arrange in serial order], dark spots, the anal area of the hindwing being orange. — Widely distributed, from West China to Amurland and Japan. Larva according to Graeser uniformly pale green, until July on Juglans mandschurica. The butterfly in July and August, plentiful in certain places.[2]

  • Araragi enthea morisonensis

  • Araragi enthea.JPG

See also

  • List of butterflies of Russia

References

  1. ↑ Janson, 1877 Notes on Japanese Rhopalocera with the description of new species Cistula ent. 2 : 153-160
  2. ↑ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)

Wikidata ☰ Q5971370 entry



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