''Ussuriana michaelis'' is a

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 ...

of 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 butterf ...

. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1881. 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 admin ...

(Primorye), China,

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

Subspecies

*''Ussuriana michaelis michaelis'' *''Ussuriana michaelis gabrielis'' (Leech, 1894) *''Ussuriana michaelis kham'' N. Nakamura & Wakahara, 2001 (Laos) *''Ussuriana michaelis okamensis'' Fujioka, 1992 (China: Kwang-tong) *''Ussuriana michaelis secunda'' Fujioka, 1992 (China: Szechuan)

References

* Butterflies described in 1881 Theclini Taxa named by Charles Oberthür Butterflies of Asia {{Theclinae-stub