Biology:Clossiana tritonia

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Clossiana tritonia
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C. tritonia
Binomial name
Clossiana tritonia
(Böber, 1812)[1]

Clossiana tritonia is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.

Description

The hind wing underside ground colour is ochre-orange, the discal band evenly ochre or whitish-coloured, with a slight suffusion of dark scales. The general pattern is more bright and the dark basal suffusion on hind wing upperside is less expressed than in related species and the male genitalia are diagnostic.[2]

Subspecies

  • C. t. tritonia Baikal
  • C. t. amphilochus (Ménétriés, 1859) Amur, Ussuri
  • C. t. barkalovi Dubatolov, 2010

Biology

The larva on feeds on Saxifraga bronchialis.

See also

  • List of butterflies of Europe

References

  1. Böber, 1812 Contribution de la description de quelques nouvelles espèces de papillons découverts en Sibérie Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 3: 20-21, 72
  2. Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia by Y.P. Korshunov and P.Y. Gorbunov

Wikidata ☰ Q48973813 entry