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Melanargia epimede

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Melanargia epimede
M. epimede - Koksharovka, Cheguyevsky District, Russia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanargia
Species:
M. epimede
Binomial name
Melanargia epimede
Synonyms
  • Melanargia meridionalis var. epimede Staudinger, 1892

Melanargia epimede is an east Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in eastern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and Japan. The larva on feeds on Agrostis clavata.[1]

Description in Seitz: "meridionalis Fldr. (= epimede Stgr. (39 c) is a large form which is broadly black above and appears to occur chiefly at Ning-po and Kiu-kiang. The ocelli of the underside especially are enormously developed. — An aberration which is melanotic on both surfaces, bearing only reduced whitish smears between the veins on the otherwise quite dark wings, is ab. lugens Honr. (39 d); it is known from Central China."

References

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  1. ^ "Melanargia Meigen, 1828" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms