''Erebia niphonica'' is an East
Palearctic
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species of
satyrine 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 ...
endemic
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to
Japan
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,
Sakhalin
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...
and the
Kuril Islands
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.
The larva on feeds on ''
Calamagrostis'' and ''
Carex'' species.
Subspecies
*''E. n. niphonica'' (Sakhalin)
*''E. n. doii''
Nakahara, 1926 (Kuriles)
*''E. n. mikuniana''
Nakahara, 1942 (Japan)
*''E. n. mikudai''
Nakahara (Japan)
*''E. n. sakae''
Torii, 1945 (Japan)
*''E. n. okadai''
Torii, 1945 (Japan)
*''E. n. hayachineana''
Okano, 1954 (Japan)
*''E. n. sugitanii''
Shirôzu, 1957 (Japan)
*''E. n. shibutsuana''
Shirôzu, 1957 (Japan)
*''E. n. gassana''
Okano & Doi, 1957 (Japan: Honshu)
*''E. n. yakeishidakeana''
Okano, 1958 (Japan: northern Honshu)
*''E. n. shirahatai''
Okano, 1958 (Japan: northern Honshu)
*''E. n. asahidakeana''
Okano, 1958 (Japan: northern Honshu)
*''E. n. nyukasana''
Murayama, 1963 (Japan)
*''E. n. tateyamana''
Murayama, 1963 (Japan)
*''E. n. yoshisakana''
Murayama, 1963 (Japan)
*''E. n. amarisana''
Murayama, 1964 (Japan)
*''E. n. togakusiana''
Murayama, 1964 (Japan)
*''E. n. expleta''
Churkin, 2005 (Sakhalin)
References
Erebia
Butterflies described in 1877
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Oliver Erichson Janson
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