''Favonius saphirinus'' 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 ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. It is found in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...

, north-eastern

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and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Subspecies

*''Favonius saphirinus saphirinus'' (Amur, Ussuri) *''Favonius saphirinus graeseri'' Dantchenko, 2000 (southern Ussuri) *''Favonius saphirinus jezonicus'' Murayama, 1953 (

: Hokkaido) *''Favonius saphirinus nipponicus'' Murayama, 1953 (

: Honshu) *''Favonius saphirinus okadai'' Koiwaya, 1996 (Sichuan) *''Favonius saphirinus oseanus'' Murayama, 1953 (

: Honshu) *''Favonius saphirinus pedius'' (Leech, 1894) (Sichuan)

References

Butterflies described in 1887 Theclini Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Otto Staudinger {{Lycaenidae-stub