Coreana is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Coreana raphaelis, which is found in the east Palearctic in Ussuri, north-east China, Korea and Japan (Honshu).
| Coreana | |
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| In Charles Oberthür's 1880 Faune des Lépidoptères de l'ile Askold | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Theclini |
| Genus: | Coreana Tutt, 1907 |
| Species: | C. raphaelis
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| Binomial name | |
| Coreana raphaelis (Oberthür, 1880)
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The larva feeds on Fraxinus species (F. rhyncophylia, F. japonica, F. lanuginosa and F. mandshurica).
Subspecies
edit- C. r. flamen (Leech, 1887) Korea
- C. r. yamamotoi Okano, 1953 Japan
- C. r. ohruii Shirôzu, 1962 Japan
External links
edit- "Coreana Tutt, [1907]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- images representing Coreana at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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