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Araschnia Hübner, [1819]

Araschnia Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (3): 37, TS: Papilio levana Linnaeus
Araschnia [Wahlberg]
Araschnia (Nymphalidae) ; [BRU2, 32]
Araschnia (Nymphalini) ; [Wahlberg]

Araschnia prorsoides (Blanchard, 1871)

N.India, Himalayas, W.China, Manipur - N.Burma. See [About maps] Mongol
prorsoides (Blanchard, 1871); C. R. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci., 72: 810
Araschnia prorsoides [Wahlberg]
Araschnia prorsoides ; [BOW: pl. 194, f. 1]; [MRS, 583]

Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758)

CEU, Russia, Asia, Japan. See [About maps] Karttaperhonen Map Butterfly Kartfjäril Landkärtchen La Carte Géographique Prótea Rusałka kratkowiec
Papilio levana Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 480
Araschnia levana [Wahlberg]
Araschnia levana [Kimmo Silvonen]
Araschnia levana [Simon Coombes]
Araschnia levana ; [BOW: pl. 1, f. 14, 16]; [EBW]; [BRU2: 32, pl. 20, f. 10-15]
Araschina levana ; [Otakar Kudrna]

951x624 (~46Kb) larva Lottental, Bochum, Germany, 10-92, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt	951x624 (~30Kb) pupa Lottental, Bochum, Germany, 10-92, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt	848x518 (~44Kb) underside male female The Shadrikha Rivulet valley, Novosibirsk District and Region, West Siberia, Russia. 2nd of June 1995 (mating), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
687x491 (~35Kb) upperside female A woody left bank of a Izdrevaya Rivulet 1 km upstream its fall into the Inya River, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 8th June 1997 (rather late for this form), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	400x598 (~47Kb) larva Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	400x599 (~44Kb) pupa Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch
594x400 (~69Kb) upperside Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	400x598 (~57Kb) underside Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	800x526 (~45Kb) Finland, Espoo, ?May 2002, Photo 15052002_19 © Timo Viitanen
806x667 (~117Kb) upperside female Russia: Moscow area (36°25'E, 56°00'N), 11.5.2009, Photo © D. Smirnov	620x619 (~94Kb) underside female Russia: Moscow area (36°25'E, 56°00'N), 11.5.2009, Photo © D. Smirnov	713x570 (~116Kb) upperside male Russia, Kaluga area (35°45'E, 54°23'N), 8.5.2006, Photo © D. Smirnov

Larva on Urtica dioeca

A. l. f. levana

levana f. levana; (Spring form)
Araschnia levana f. levana [Mario Maier]

A. l. f. prorsa (Linnaeus)

levana f. prorsa (Linnaeus); (Summer form)
Araschnia levana f. prorsa [Mario Maier]

524x394 (~16Kb) upperside Tall herbage on a woody Bol'shoi Tesh River right bank 7 km NEE of the village Kuzedeevo, the piedmonts of Gornaya Shoria Mts., Novokuznetsk District., Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 27th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	599x400 (~53Kb) upperside Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	637x600 (~93Kb) Russia, Moscow area, 25.7.2005, Photo © D. Smirnov
802x570 (~111Kb) Russia, Moscow area 25.7.2006 © D. Smirnov	550x595 (~93Kb) upperside Russia, Moscow area, 29.7.2008, Photo © D. Smirnov	597x752 (~64Kb) upperside Lithuania: Dzukija, Marcinkonys-Zervynos, 15.7.2008, Photo © Harri Arkkio

A. l. f. porima (Ochsenheimer, 1807)

levana f. porima (Ochsenheimer, 1807); (Autumn form)
Araschnia levana f. porima [Mario Maier]

A. l. levana

CEU, Caucasus Major, Siberia, Transbaikalia, N.Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau Araschnia levana levana ; [BRU2, 32]

A. l. wladimiri Kardakov, 1928

Amur, Ussuri separata Kardakov, 1928
f. borgesti Kardakov, 1928; (Summer form)
Araschnia levana wladimiri ; [BRU2, 32]

A. l. sachalinensis Shriôzu, 1952

Sakhalin Araschnia levana sachalinensis ; [BRU2, 32]

Araschnia doris Leech, [1892]

W.China, C.China. See [About maps] Araschnia doris Leech, [1892]; Butts China Japan Corea (1): 272 (1892-1894), pl. 26, f. 4-5
Araschnia doris [Wahlberg]
Araschnia doris ; [MRS, 583]

Araschnia dohertyi Moore, [1899]

N.Burma, China, Yunnan, .... See [About maps] Araschnia dohertyi Moore, [1899]; Lepidoptera Indica, 4 : 108, pl. 320, f. 3
Araschnia dohertyi ; [MRS, 583]

Araschnia burejana (Bremer, 1861)

Tibet, China, Amur, Korea, Japan. See [About maps] burejana (Bremer, 1861); Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 3: 466
Araschnia kurilicola Bryk, 1942
Araschnia fallax Janson, 1877; (summer form)
Araschnia burejana [Wahlberg]
Araschnia burejana ; [BOW: pl. 193, f. 12]; [MRS, 584]; [BRU2: 32, pl. 20, f. 16-21]

800x600 (~131Kb) larva shady brook bank in a larch (Larix gmelinii) forest not far from the Argun' River left bank between the village Uryupino and the Gazimur River, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 31th July 1997 (A mature larva on its foodplant Urtica angustifolia Fischer ex Hornem), Photo © Oleg Kosterin

823x616 (~65Kb) upperside floweer clump, Chihaya-akasaka-mura, Minami-kawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 3th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

665x942 (~84Kb) underside floweer clump, Chihaya-akasaka-mura, Minami-kawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 3th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Larva on Urtica [BRU2, 32]

A. b. leechi Oberthür

Araschnia burejana leechi ; [MRS, 584]

A. b. chinensis Oberthür

Araschnia burejana chinensis ; [MRS, 584]

Araschnia davidis Poujade, 1885

Tibet, W.China, C.China. See [About maps] Araschnia davidis Poujade, 1885; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5: 94, TL: Moupin
Araschnia davidis [Wahlberg]
Araschnia davidis ; [MRS, 584]

Araschnia zhangi Chou, 1994

Jiangsu. See [About maps] Araschnia zhangi Chou, 1994; in Chou, Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium 1-2: 767, 584, f. 59, TL: Nanjing, Jiangsu

Araschnia oreas Leech, [1892]

E.Tibet, W.China. See [About maps] Araschnia oreas Leech, [1892]; Butts China Japan Corea (1): 275 (1892-1894)
Araschnia oreas ; [BOW: pl. 193, f. 13]
Araschnia davidis oreas ;

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[BRU2]

Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2

[D. Smirnov]

Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[HBN]

Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2

[Harri Arkkio]

Finland; For the time being these pictures are only for this site. Other usage not allowed.

[Kimmo Silvonen]

Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Mario Maier]

Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier

[Michael Borsch]

Geesthacht, Germany; contact through; e-mail: Francisco Welter-Schultes

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm

[Simon Coombes]

1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

[Timo Viitanen]

http://www.kuvarkisto.com/

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

Some related literature:

Blanchard, 1871

Remarques sur la faune de la principauté thibétane du Moupin C. R. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci., 72: 807-813

Bremer, 1861

Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur-Lande gesammelt von Radde und Maack, bescrieben von Otto Bremer Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 3: 461-495 [?462-496]

Hübner, [1819]

Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816) (2): 17-32 (1819) (3): 33-48 (1819) (4): 49-64 (1819) (5): 65-80 (1819) (6): 81-96 (1819) (7): 97-112 (1819) (8): 113-128 (1819) (9): 129-144 (1819) (10): 145-160 (1819) (11): 161-176 (1819) (12): 177-192 (1820) (13): 193-208 (1820) (14): 209-224 (1821) (15): 225-240 (1821) (16): 241-256 (1821) (17): 257-272 (1823) (18): 273-288 (1823) (19): 289-304 (1823) (20): 305-320 (1825) (21): 321-336 (1825) (22): 337-352 (1825) (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])

Leech, [1892]

Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea Butts China Japan Corea (1): 1-297, pl. 1-28 (1892-1894) (2): 297-681, pl. 29-43 (1893-1894)

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338 339-824

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