Fabriciana nerippe coreana
Subspecies of butterfly
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Fabriciana nerippe coreana is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea, Japan) that belongs to the Nymphalidae family.
| Fabriciana nerippe coreana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Fabriciana |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | F. n. coreana |
| Trinomial name | |
| Fabriciana nerippe coreana | |
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Taxonomy
Depending on authors, this taxon is either regarded as a subspecies of Fabriciana nerippe or as a distinct species (in which case it is called Fabriciana coreana or Argynnis coreana).[2]
Description from Seitz
In the form [ of A nerippe Fldr] coreana Btlr., from Corea, the upperside is pale yellow and the black markings are thin and sparse, the spots smaller and often obsolescent. — coredippe Leech (70a) [synonym] is the cleodoxa -form of the large East- Asiatic vorax; as in cleodoxa the silver is replaced with pale yellow, but the spots are more prominent than in the European form on account of the greenish dusting of the ground between them; Manchuria, Shantung, Corea.[3]
