''Luehdorfia puziloi'' 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 ...

of the family

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larges ...

. It was described by

Nikolay Grigoryevich Erschoff Nikolay Grigoryevich Erschoff, also Nikolaj Grigor'jevitsch Erschov, Erschow or Yershov (russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов; 23 April 1837 in Moscow – 12 March 1896 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly int ...

in 1872. It is found in

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...

, 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 ...

(Ussuri),

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

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 ...

and the

Kuriles The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (; rus, Кури́льские острова́, r=Kuril'skiye ostrova, p=kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva; Japanese: or ) are a volcanic archipelago currently administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the ...

. The larvae feed on '' Asarum sieboldii'' and '' Asiasarum'' species."'' Luehdorfia puziloi'' Erschoff, 1872 "
''Tree of Life Web Project''. Retrieved December 27, 2017.

Subspecies

*''Luehdorfia puziloi puziloi'' (south-eastern Russia) *''Luehdorfia puziloi coreana'' Matsumura, 1927 (Korea) *''Luehdorfia puziloi inexpecta'' Sheljuzhko, 1913 (Japan) *''Luehdorfia puziloi jezoensis'' Matsumura *''Luehdorfia puziloi lenzeni'' Bryk, 1938 (China) *''Luehdorfia puziloi lingjangensis'' Lee, 1982 (China) *''Luehdorfia puziloi machimuraorum'' Fujioka, 2003 (south-eastern Russia) *''Luehdorfia puziloi yessoensis'' Rothschild, 1918 (Japan (Hokkaido))

References

Butterflies described in 1872 Luehdorfia Butterflies of Asia {{Papilionidae-stub