Aricia chinensis

Aricia chinensis is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Central Asia (mountains), Mongolia, West China, Central China, Northeast China, Korea) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Aricia chinensis
Aricia chinensis myrmecias in Seitz 80a
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Aricia
Species:
A. chinensis

(Murray, [1874]) [1]
Binomial name
Aricia chinensis

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Above like astrarche but the fringes spotted. Beneath the reddish yellow submarginal band is neither interrupted nor proximally dentate, being edged with short black lunules and standing somewhat farther away from the margin. In North China and Manchuria. — myrmecias Christ. (80 a) is a form from Turkestan with the macular band pale yellow instead of reddish yellow. In May, found on flowers of Centaurea.[2] The larva feeds on Leguminosae.

Subspecies
  • A. c. chinensis Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, NE.China
  • A. c. sibiricana (Kozhanchikov, 1928) South Siberia (West of Baikal)
  • A. c. myrmecias (Christoph, 1877) Turan
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See also

References
  1. Murray, Rev. R. P., 1873. Descriptions of new Species of Exotic Rhopalocera. Ent. mon. Mag. 10: 107–108.
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)


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