Araschnia

Araschnia Hübner, [1819]

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

Araschnia; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Araschnia (Nymphalidae); [BRU2], 32
Araschnia (Nymphalini); Korb & Bolshakov, 2011, Eversmannia Suppl. 2: 37; [RFEL]; [Wahlberg, 2023]

Araschnia prorsoides (Blanchard, 1871)

N.India, Himalayas, W.China, Manipur - N.Burma. See [maps] Mongol

prorsoides Blanchard, 1871; C. R. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci. 72: 810

Araschnia prorsoides levanoides; [iNaturalist]
Araschnia prorsoides prorsoides; [iNaturalist]
Araschnia prorsoides; [BOW]: pl. 194, f. 1; [MRS], 583; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758)

CEU, Russia, Asia, Japan. See [maps] Karttaperhonen Prótea Rusałka kratkowiec Map Butterfly La Carte Géographique Kartfjäril Landkärtchen

Papilio levana Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 480
Arachnia[sic] levana ab. pseudorientalis Reuss, 1939; Ent. Zs. 53 (1) (1): 4
obscura Fenton

Araschnia levana obscura; Kudrna, 1974, Atalanta 5: 105; [iNaturalist]
Araschnia levana; [BOW]: pl. 1, f. 14, 16; [EBW]; [BRU2]: 32, pl. 20, f. 10-15; [Otakar Kudrna]; [RFEL]; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011, Eversmannia Suppl. 2: 37; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [Heiner Ziegler] ; [MBE] ; [MBE] ; [SVF]
Araschnia obscura; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
levana f. levana; (Spring form)

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 The Shadrikha Rivulet valley, Novosibirsk District and Region, West Siberia, Russia. 2nd of June 1995 (mating), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
687x491 (~35Kb) ♀ upperside 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	800x533 (~114Kb) ♀ upperside 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, 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 Russia: Moscow area (36°25'E, 56°00'N), 11.5.2009, Photo © D. Smirnov	620x619 (~94Kb) ♀ underside Russia: Moscow area (36°25'E, 56°00'N), 11.5.2009, Photo © D. Smirnov
713x570 (~116Kb) ♂ upperside Russia, Kaluga area (35°45'E, 54°23'N), 8.5.2006, Photo © D. Smirnov

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	600x600 (~69Kb) underside A herbaceous meadow, a pine forest at Nizhnyaya El'tsovka, Novosibirsk, 19th July 1992, 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	979x1001 (~271Kb) 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1296x839 (~268Kb) upperside 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
714x962 (~193Kb) underside 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1177x934 (~327Kb) upperside 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

f. porima (Ochsenheimer, 1807)

levana f. porima Ochsenheimer, 1807; (Autumn form)

Araschnia levana f. porima; [Mario Maier]
Araschnia levana porima; [iNaturalist]

A. l. levana CEU, Caucasus Major, Siberia, Transbaikalia, N.Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau

Araschnia levana f. levana; [Mario Maier]
Araschnia levana levana; [BRU2], 32

A. l. wladimiri Kardakoff, 1928 Amur, Ussuri

Araschnia levana wladimiri Kardakoff, 1928; Ent. Mitt. 17 (8): 414, pl. 8, f. 1-2
Araschnia levana ab. separata Kardakoff, 1928; Ent. Mitt. 17 (8): 415, pl. 8, f. 3
Araschnia levana borgesti Kardakoff, 1928; Ent. Mitt. 17 (4): 269, (8):415, pl. 7, f. 1-2

Araschnia levana borgesti; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Araschnia levana separata; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Araschnia levana wladimiri; [BRU2], 32; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

A. l. sachalinensis Shriôzu, 1952 Sakhalin

Araschnia levana sachalinensis; [BRU2], 32; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

Araschnia doris Leech, [1892]

W.China, C.China. See [maps]

Araschnia doris Leech, [1892]; Butts China Japan Corea (1): 272, pl. 26, f. 4-5

Araschnia doris; [MRS], 583; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Araschnia dohertyi Moore, [1899]

N.Burma, China, Yunnan, .... See [maps]

Araschnia dohertyi Moore, [1899]; Lepidoptera Indica 4: 108, pl. 320, f. 3

Araschnia dohertyi; [MRS], 583; [iNaturalist]
Araschnia prorsoides dohertyi; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

Araschnia burejana Bremer, 1861

Tibet, China, Amur, Korea, Japan. See [maps]

Araschnia burejana Bremer, 1861; Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. 3: 466
Araschnia kurilicola Bryk, 1942
Araschnia fallax Janson, 1877; (summer form)
Araschina burejana ab. azumiana Sugitani, 1932; Zephyrus 4 (?): 91

Araschnia burejana kurilicola; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Araschnia burejana; [BOW]: pl. 193, f. 12; [MRS], 584; [BRU2]: 32, pl. 20, f. 16-21; [RFEL]; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011, Eversmannia Suppl. 2: 37; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Araschnia fallax; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Araschnia levana kurilicola; [iNaturalist]

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	500x500 (~39Kb) pupa A pupa resulted from a larva collected on 31th July 1997 on a 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, 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	1021x1055 (~292Kb) ♀ upperside Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Korfovskiy settlement. 11th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	2024x2150 (~764Kb) ♀ upperside Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Korfovskiy settlement. 11th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
1346x1083 (~310Kb) ♀ upperside Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Korfovskiy settlement. 11th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

A. b. strigosa Butler, 1866 Japan

Araschnia strigosa Butler, 1866; J. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 9 (34): 54; TL: Japan, Hakodate

Araschina burejana strigosa; Kudrna, 1974, Atalanta 5: 105
Araschnia strigosa; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

A. b. leechi Oberthür

Araschnia burejana leechi; [MRS], 584; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

A. b. chinensis Oberthür

Araschnia burejana chinensis; [MRS], 584
Araschnia chinensis; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Araschnia davidis Poujade, 1885

Tibet, W.China, C.China. See [maps]

Araschnia davidis Poujade, 1885; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5: xciv; TL: Moupin

Araschnia davidis; [MRS], 584; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Araschnia zhangi Chou, 1994

Jiangsu. See [maps]

Araschnia zhangi Chou, 1994; Mon. Rhop. Sinesium: 767, 584, f. 59; TL: Nanjing, Jiangsu

Araschnia zhangi; [iNaturalist]

Araschnia oreas Leech, [1892]

E.Tibet, W.China. See [maps]

Araschnia oreas Leech, [1892]; Butts China Japan Corea (1): 275

Araschnia davidis oreas;
Araschnia oreas; [BOW]: pl. 193, f. 13; [iNaturalist]

Vanessa prorsa var. schultzi Pfitzner, 1908; Soc. Ent. 22 (23): 177

References:

[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[D. Smirnov]
Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov
[EVERSMANNIA]
Eversmannia contents
[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.
[Heiner Ziegler]
Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[Mario Maier]
Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier
[Michael Borsch]
Geesthacht, Germany; contact through; e-mail: Francisco Welter-Schultes
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[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
[SVF]
Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)
[Timo Viitanen]
http://www.kuvarkisto.com/
[Wahlberg]
Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[ZOBODAT] Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum
OÖ. Landesmuseum; ZOBODAT - Literatur
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[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.

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 : 461-496, Mélanges biol. St.-Pétersb. 3 (5-6): 538-589
Butler, 1866
A list of the diurnal Lepidoptera recently collected by Mr. Whitely in Hakodadi (North Japan) J. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 9 (34) : 50-58
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2 Mon. Rhop. Sinesium : 1-854
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])
Kardakoff, 1928
Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopteren des Ussuri-Gebietes Ent. Mitt. 17 (4): 261-273, (8): 414-425
Korb & Bolshakov, 2011
[A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilioformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated] (in Russian) Eversmannia Suppl. 2 : 1-123
Kudrna, 1974
An annotated List of Japanese Butterflies Atalanta 5 : 92-120
Leech, [1892]
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea Butts China Japan Corea (1): 1-296, pl. 1-28 (1892-1894), (2): 297-681, pl. 29-43 (1893-1894)
[RFEL]; Leley, 2016
Annotated catalogue of the insects of Russian Far East. Volume II. Lepidoptera Cat. ins. Russian Far East. 2 : 1-812
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
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
Moore, [1899]
Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera. Family Nymphalidae. Sub-family Nymphalinae (continued), Groups Limenitina, Nymphalina, and Argynnina Lepidoptera Indica 4 : 1-176 [?1-112] (1899),, : 177-260 [?113-260] (1900)
Poujade, 1885
[no title] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5 : x-xi [10-11], : xxiv-xxv [24-25], : xli-xlii [41-42], : lxvi [61], : xciv-xcv [94-95], : cxliii [143], : cli [151], : cc [200], : ccvii-ccviii [207-208], : ccxv-ccxvi [215-216]
Reuss, 1939
Einige vergleichende Neubeschreibungen (Lepidopt.-Nymphalidae) Ent. Zs. 53 (1) (1): 1-5, (2): 10-12
Pfitzner in Schultz, 1908
Diagnosen einiger pal. Rhopaloceren-Formen Soc. Ent. 22 (23) : 177-178
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Sugitani, 1932
Some new aberrant forms of Japanese and Formosan butterflies [in Japanese] Zephyrus 4 (1): 5-9, pl. 2, (?): 88-91
[BRU2]; Tuzov, Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000
Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories: Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae Butts. Russia adj. terr. 2 : 1-580

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