Mycalesis francisca

Mycalesis francisca is an East Palearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in China, Japan,Korea, Assam, Burma and Indochina

Mycalesis francisca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Mycalesis
Species:
M. francisca
Binomial name
Mycalesis francisca
(Stoll, [1780]) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio francisca Stoll, [1780]
  • Mycalesis perdiccas Hewitson, 1862
  • Mycalesis magna Leech, [1892]
  • Mycalesis penicillata Poujade, 1884
  • Mycalesis perdiccas var. horishana Matsumura, 1909
  • Mycalesis sanatana var. coronensis Matsumura, 1909
  • Mycalesis sanatana gomia Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis vercella Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Mycalesis latistriata Mell, 1942
  • Mycalesis francisca formosana f. hirtia Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis sanatana Moore, [1858]
  • Mycalesis gopa C. & R. Felder, [1867]
  • Mycalesis albofasciata Tytler, 1914

The larva feeds on Imperata cylindrica, Miscanthus sinensis, Setaria palmifolia and Oplismenus undulatifolius

Subspecies
  • M. f. francisca
  • M. f. ulia Fruhstorfer, 1908 (northern Vietnam)
  • M. f. formosana Fruhstorfer, 1908 (Taiwan)
  • M. f. sanatana Moore, [1858] (India to Burma, Thailand, Laos, South Yunnan)
  • M. f. albofasciata Tytler, 1914 (Manipur, Burma, Northwest Yunnan)
  • M. f. arisana Sonan, 1931 (Taiwan)
  • M. f. perdiccas Hewitson, [1862] (Japan)

References
  1. "Mycalesis Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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