Melanargia epimede is an east Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in eastern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and Japan. The larva on feeds on Agrostis clavata.[1]
| Melanargia epimede | |
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| M. epimede - Koksharovka, Cheguyevsky District, Russia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melanargia |
| Species: | M. epimede
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanargia epimede Staudinger, 1892
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Description in Seitz: "meridionalis Fldr. (= epimede Stgr. (39 c) is a large form which is broadly black above and appears to occur chiefly at Ning-po and Kiu-kiang. The ocelli of the underside especially are enormously developed. — An aberration which is melanotic on both surfaces, bearing only reduced whitish smears between the veins on the otherwise quite dark wings, is ab. lugens Honr. (39 d); it is known from Central China."
References
edit- ^ "Melanargia Meigen, 1828" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms