'' Chrysozephyrus brillantinus '' is a small
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
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The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea, Japan) that belongs to the
lycaenids or blues family.
Description from Seitz
Z. brillantina Stgr. (= smaragdina Leech) (73 g). At once recognized by the extremely strong
golden green gloss of the upperside, which is only present to the same degree in ''smaragdina'', whose upperside is identical with that of ''brillantina''. The black border to the upperside is considerably broader than in the preceding forms. This species differs from ''smaragdinus'' in the underside being much darker, so that the markings are less prominent. The females have, as in ''
taxila
Taxila or Takshashila (; sa, तक्षशिला; pi, ; , ; , ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Located in the Taxila Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and ...
'' and the other golden green species, sometimes pale yellow spots on the forewing or some metallic scaling similar to that of the males . — Amur and Ussuri, Vladivostok, Askold and Corea. Larva coppery brown, with a dark dorsal line and on each segment a pale oblique spot, the joints between the segments also being pale ; on oak.
Biology
The larva feeds on ''
Quercus mongolica
''Quercus mongolica'', commonly known as Mongolian oak, is a species of oak native to Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia, and Siberia. The species can grow to be tall.
The flavono-ellagitannin The Flavono-ellagitannins or complex tannins are a cla ...
'' var. ''grosseserata'', ''
Quercus acutissima
''Quercus acutissima'', the sawtooth oak, is an Asian species of oak native to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Indochina (Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia) and the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, northeastern India). It is widely planted in many lands ...
'', ''
Quercus serrata
''Quercus serrata'', the jolcham oak, (, ) is an East Asian species of tree in the beech family. It is native to China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Description
''Quercus serrata'' is a deciduous oak tree reaching a height of occupying elevations ...
'', ''
Quercus dentata
''Quercus dentata'', also called Japanese emperor oak or daimyo oak ( ja, 柏, ''kashiwa''; ; ko, 떡갈나무, ''tteokgalnamu'') is a species of oak native to East Asia (Japan, Korea and China). The name of the tree is often translated as "swee ...
'', ''
Quercus aliena
''Quercus aliena'', the galcham oak or oriental white oak, is a species of oak in the family Fagaceae, in the white oak section ''Quercus''.
Description
It is a deciduous tree growing to tall with a trunk up to in diameter with fissured gray ...
'', ''
Quercus variabilis
''Quercus variabilis'', the Chinese cork oak, is a species of oak in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris'', native to a wide area of eastern Asia in southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Description
''Quercus variab ...
'', ''
Cyclobalanopsis glauca
''Quercus glauca'' ( syn. ''Cyclobalanopsis glauca''), commonly called ring-cupped oak or Japanese blue oak, is a tree in the beech family (Fagaceae). It is native to eastern and southern Asia, where it is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, nor ...
'', ''
Pasania sieboldiana''
[Shirôzu, 1962, Tyô to Ga 12 (4): 154]
Subspecies
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus brillantinus'' (Ussuri, north-eastern China, Korea)
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus aino''
(Matsumura, 1915) (Japan: Hokkaido)
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus alpinus''
(Murayama, 1954) (Japan: Honshu)
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus kansaiensis''
(Murayama, 1954) (Japan: Honshu)
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus jankowskii''
(Seits, 1908)
*''Chrysozephyrus brillantinus hecalina''
(Bryk, 1946) (Korea)
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 connec ...
References
Theclinae
Butterflies described in 1887
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