Japonica lutea
Species of butterfly
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Japonica lutea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Japonica |
| Species: | J. lutea |
| Binomial name | |
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Description from Seitz
Z. lutea Hew. (74 f). The outer margin of the wings strongly rounded. particularly in the female; hind wing with a long tail. Honey-yellow, the forewing with a broad black distal border. Underside with a white submarginal line, which separates the disc from the orange-red distal margin; on the disc white- edged bands, a short similar hand on the cross-veins of the forewing. In Amurland and Japan. — Larva on Quercus mongolica, very frequently infested with the larvae of Diptera. The butterflies occur in August on wide roads in forests of high trees and also in bush-woods; they are rather plentiful in many places. The Continental specimens do not differ from Japanese ones; the black border of the forewing varies rather strongly in width among the individuals from the same locality.[2]
Biology
The larva on feeds on Quercus mongolica, other Quercus and Cyclobalanopsis glauca.
Seitz 74f
Japonica lutea in Rhopalocera nihonica
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