Wagimo signata
Species of butterfly
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Wagimo signata is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881. It is found in the Russian Far East (Ussuri, Primor'e), north-eastern and central China, Korea and Japan.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Wagimo |
| Species: | W. signata |
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| Wagimo signata (Butler, 1881) | |
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Adults hatch in the middle of July.
The larvae feed on Quercus species (including Q. dentata, Q. serrata, Q. mongolica, Q. acutissima, Q. alinea and Q. variabilis), as well as Cyclobalanospsis glauca.[2]
Subspecies
- Wagimo signata signata
- Wagimo signata minamii (Fujioka, 1994)
- Wagimo signata quercivora (Staudinger, 1887) (southern Ussuri)
