''Favonius orientalis'' is an East
Palearctic species of
hairstreak
The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, often referred to as hairstreaks, with some species instead known as elfins or by other names. The group is part of the family Lycaenidae, the "gossamer-winged butterflies". There are many tropi ...
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
found in China, Amur, Ussuri, Kunashir, Japan, and Korea.
The larva feeds on ''
Quercus mongolica
''Quercus mongolica'', commonly known as Mongolian oak, is a species of oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The commo ...
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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 ...
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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 "sw ...
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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 land ...
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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 varia ...
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Fabaceae.
"''Favonius'' Sibatani & Ito, 1942"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Subspecies
*''F. o. orientalis'' (Honshu)
*''F. o. shirozui'' Murayama, 1956 (Hokkaido)
*''F. o. schischkini'' Kurentzov, 1970 (Amur, Ussuri, Kunashir)
References
Theclini
Butterflies described in 1875
Taxa named by Richard Paget Murray
Butterflies of Asia
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