Melanargia epimede
| Melanargia epimede | |
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| Melanargia epimede in Seitz as meridionalis Felder (c) and ab. lugens Honrath (d) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melanargia |
| Species: | M. epimede |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanargia epimede Staudinger, 1892 | |
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Melanargia epimede is an East Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in Ukraine, East Mongolia, Northeast 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.
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