Sephisa princeps
Sephisa princeps is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Heinrich Fixsen in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri), north-eastern China and Korea. The habitat consists of oak forests.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Sephisa |
| Species: | S. princeps |
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Adults are on wing from July to August.
Females occur in tree crowns while males, usually solitary, often occur on puddles. The female lays eggs in a convolute leaf by some dozens at a time.
The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.[2] Larvae of first two instars live gregariously. There are a total of five instars. The pupation takes place in a pupa hanging on the leaf petiole.[3]
Subspecies
- Sephisa princeps princeps
- Sephisa princeps tamla Sugiyama, 1999 (China: Yunnan)
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References
- "Sephisa Moore, 1882" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- lepidopterology.com
- Russian Insects
- Sephisa princeps at Insecta.pro
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