'' Carterocephalus dieckmanni '' is a species of
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(Northeast China, Amur, Ussuri, North Burma) that belongs to the
skippers family.
Description from Seitz
P. dieckmanni Graes. (— gemmatus Leech, demea Oberth.) (87 d) Forewing beneath with the spots in cellules 1 a and 2 united with those in cellule 3, forming an uninterrupted median band. Amur, West-China, Tibet.
[Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)]
Subspecies
*''Carterocephalus dieckmanni dieckmanni'' - southern Amur and Ussuri
*''Carterocephalus dieckmanni minor''
Evans, 1932 - China
See also
*
List of butterflies of Russia
This is a list of butterflies of Russia. About 540 species are known from Russia. The butterflies (mostly diurnal) and moths (mostly nocturnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
The history of lepidopterology in Russia is conne ...
References
Heteropterinae
Butterflies described in 1888
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