Melanargia epimede

Melanargia epimede
	In Adalbert Seitz as meridionalis Felder (c) and ab. lugens Honrath (d)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Melanargia
Species:	M. epimede
Binomial name
	Melanargia epimede; Staudinger, 1892
Synonyms
	Melanargia meridionalis var. epimede Staudinger, 1892;

Melanargia epimede is an east Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in eastern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and Japan. The larva on feeds on Agrostis clavata.^[1]

Description in Seitz: "meridionalis Fldr. (= epimede Stgr. (39 c) is a large form which is broadly black above and appears to occur chiefly at Ning-po and Kiu-kiang. The ocelli of the underside especially are enormously developed. — An aberration which is melanotic on both surfaces, bearing only reduced whitish smears between the veins on the otherwise quite dark wings, is ab. lugens Honr. (39 d); it is known from Central China."

References

^ "Melanargia Meigen, 1828" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] "Melanargia Meigen, 1828" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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