''Fabriciana nerippe coreana'' is a
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 ...
(Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea, Japan) that belongs to the
Nymphalidae family.
Taxonomy
Depending on authors, this taxon is either regarded as a
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
of ''
Fabriciana nerippe
''Fabriciana nerippe'' is an East Palearctic butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (Heliconiinae
The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be div ...
'' or as a distinct
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
(in which case it is called ''Fabriciana coreana'' or ''Argynnis coreana'').
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Description from Seitz
In the form of ''A nerippe'' Fldr''coreana'' Btlr., from Corea, the upperside is pale yellow and the black markings are thin and sparse, the spots smaller and often obsolescent.
— ''coredippe'' Leech (70a) ynonymis the ''cleodoxa'' -form of the large East- Asiatic ''vorax''; as in ''cleodoxa'' the silver is replaced with pale yellow, but the spots are more prominent than in the European form on account of the greenish dusting of the ground between them; Manchuria, Shantung, Corea.[Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) ]
See also
* List of butterflies of Russia
References
Fabriciana
Butterflies described in 1882
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