Biology:Coreana

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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Coreana
Oberthur 1880EtudEntPlate5.jpg
In Charles Oberthür's 1880 Faune des Lépidoptères de l'ile Askold
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Coreana

Tutt, 1907
Species:
C. raphaelis
Binomial name
Coreana raphaelis
(Oberthür, 1880)

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).

The larva feeds on Fraxinus species (F. rhyncophylia, F. japonica, F. lanuginosa and F. mandshurica).

Subspecies

  • C. r. flamen (Leech, 1887) Korea
  • C. r. yamamotoi Okano, 1953 Japan
  • C. r. ohruii Shirôzu, 1962 Japan

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1367192 entry