Japonica lutea

Japonica lutea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Japonica lutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Japonica
Species:	J. lutea
Binomial name
Japonica lutea (Hewitson, 1865)

Description from Seitz

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

Z. lutea Hew. (74 f). The outer margin of the wings strongly rounded. particularly in the female; hind wing with a long tail. Honey-yellow, the forewing with a broad black distal border. Underside with a white submarginal line, which separates the disc from the orange-red distal margin; on the disc white- edged bands, a short similar hand on the cross-veins of the forewing. In Amurland and Japan. — Larva on Quercus mongolica, very frequently infested with the larvae of Diptera. The butterflies occur in August on wide roads in forests of high trees and also in bush-woods; they are rather plentiful in many places. The Continental specimens do not differ from Japanese ones; the black border of the forewing varies rather strongly in width among the individuals from the same locality.

Biology

The larva on feeds on Quercus mongolica , other Quercus and Cyclobalanopsis glauca.

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  Seitz 74f
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  Japonica lutea in Rhopalocera nihonica

Subspecies

• Japonica lutea lutea Japan.
• Japonica lutea adusta (Riley, 1939) Sichuan, East Tibet
• Japonica lutea dubatolovi Fujioka, 1993 Amur Oblast, Ussuri.
• Japonica lutea gansuensis Murayama, 1991
• Japonica lutea patungkoanui Murayama, 1956 Taiwan.
• Japonica lutea tatsienluica (Riley, 1939) Sichuan.

See also

• List of butterflies of Russia