Mimathyma nycteis Menetries 1859
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Mimathyma nycteis (Ménétriès, 1859)
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Atyma [sic] nycteis Ménétriès, 1859: 215 [Type locality: “l’embouchure de l’Oussouri” (= Ussuri region)].
Neptis nycteis: Fixsen, 1887: 295 (first record from Korea).
Apatura nycteis: Leech, 1893: 155; Staudinger and Rebel, 1901: 21; Stichel, 1908: 164; Nire, 1918: 95; Nakayama, 1932: 379; Mori et al., 1934: 31 (Apature [sic]); Kishida and Nakamura, 1936: 517; Seok, 1939b: 61; Seok, 1942: 87; Seok and Umitatsu, 1942: 186; Kim and Mi, 1956: 396; Seok, 1973: 90.
Athymodes nycteis: Inomata, 1982: xviii; Lee, 1982: 75; Korshunov and Gorbunov, 1995: 73; Tuzov et al., 2000: 15.
Mimathyma nycteis: Masui and Inomata, 1991: 10; Chou, 1994: 431; Lee, 2005: 27.
Apatura nycteis f. furukawai Matsumura, 1931: 43 [Type locality: “Kainei”, North Korea].
Subspecies. The Korean populations are considered to belong to subsp. furukawai.
Adult. Active from mid June to mid August (one brood). Adults are readily observed in hilly areas where young food trees are dominant. Males are often encountered on the ground. In the afternoon, they move to tops of hills or mountains to sit on trees and engage in hilltopping. Females are attracted to fermenting fluids, especially fluxes issuing from oak trees.
Larval host plants. Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, Ulmus davidiana Planch., etc. (cf. Kim and Sohn 1992; Joo et al. 1997).
Life cycle. See Kim and Sohn (1992) and Harada and Igarashi (1993). Eggs are laid one by one on leaves of the host plants. Larvae are solitary. The 5th or rarely the 4th instar larvae hibernate on undersides of fallen leaves on the ground below the food plants.
Distribution. Northern and central Korea (locally distributed in mainland Korea, abundant in northern part and seldom in southern part, but not on adjacent islands), central and northeastern China and Far Eastern Russia.
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- Arthropoda
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- Nymphalidae
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- Mimathyma nycteis Menetries, 1859 sec. Lee, 2009
References
- Menetries, M. (1859) Lepidopteres de la Siberie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour. Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathematique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 17, 212 - 221.
- Fixsen, C. (1887) Lepidoptera aus Korea. Memoires sur les Lepidopteres rediges par N. M. Romanoff, 3, 233 - 319, pls. 13 - 14.
- Leech, J. H. (1893) Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea, Part II. R. H. Porter, London. pp. 115 - 285, pls. 14 - 26.
- Staudinger, O. & Rebel, H. (1901) Catalog der Lepidopteren des palaearctischen Faunengebietes, 1. Theil: Famil. Papilionidae - Hepialidae. R. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin. xxxii + 368 pp.
- Stichel, H. (1908) Apatura - Hestina. pp. 160 - 193 In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge, I. Abteilung: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Band I: Die palaearktischen Tagfalter: Textband / Tafelband. Stuttgart. 379 pp., 89 pls.
- Nire, K. (1918) Gen. Apatura Fabricius, 1807, Gen. Sephisa Moore, 1882 and Gen. Sasakia Moore, 1895. In: A catalogue of the butterflies of Japan. The Zoological Magazine, 30, 93 - 98.
- Nakayama, S. (1932) A guide to general information concerning Corean butterflies. Bulletin of the Suigen Imperial College of Agriculture and Forestry, 25 th Anniversary, Suwon. pp. 366 - 386, pls. 1 - 3.
- Mori, T., Doi, H., & Cho, F. (1934) Coloured butterflies from Korea. 109 pp., 30 pls. (In Japanese)
- Kishida, K. & Nakamura, Y. (1936) A catalogue of Japanese insects, fasc. 9. Lepidoptera. The Entomological World, Tokyo, 4, 433 - 673. (In Japanese)
- Seok, D. M. (1939 b) A synonymic list of butterflies of Korea (Ty o sen). Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Seoul. xxxl + 391 pp., 2 pls.
- Seok, D. M. & Umitatsu, T. J. (1942) Butterflies of S. Heiando. Journal of Chosen Natural History Society, 9 (37), 185 - 192. (In Japanese)
- Kim, H. K. & Mi, S. W. (1956) [Correction of the scientific names of Korean butterfly list.] Commemorative Theses for the 70 th Anniversary of Ewha Womans University, Seoul. pp. 377 - 405. (In Korean)
- Seok, D. M. (1973) The distribution maps of butterflies in Korea. Po Chin Chai, Ltd., Seoul. 517 pp. (In Korean)
- Inomata, T. (1982) Appendix. pp. i - xxiv In: Mori, T., Doi, H., & Cho, F., Coloured butterflies from Korea (rep. edn.). Scientist Inc., Tokyo. 30 pls., 86 + 23 + xxiv pp. (In Japanese)
- Lee, S. - M. (1982) Butterflies of Korea. Editorial Committee of Insecta Koreana, Seoul. 125 pp., 63 pls.
- Korshunov, Y. P. & Gorbunov, P. (1995) [Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia. A handbook] (Dnevnye babochki aziatskoi chasti Rossii. Spravochnik). Ural University Press, Ekaterinburg. 202 pp. (In Russian)
- Tuzov, V. K. [ed.], Bogdanov, P. V., Churkin, S. V., Devyatkin, A. L., Dantchenko, A. V., Murzin, V. S., Samodurov, G. D., & Zhdanko, A. B. (2000) Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories, 2: Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. 580 pp.
- Masui, A. & Inomata, T. (1991) Apaturinae of the world (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) - 2 -. Yadoriga, 146, 2 - 14. (In Japanese)
- Chou, I. [ed.] (1994) Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium, 1 - 2. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Zhengzhou. 854 pp. (In Chinese)
- Lee, Y. J. (2005) A list of butterflies from Korea with notes on some changes in scientific names. Lucanus, Seoul, 5, 18 - 28. (In Korean with English abstract)
- Matsumura, S. (1931) New species and new forms of butterflies from Japan. Insecta matsumurana, 6, 43 - 45.
- Kim, S. - S. & Sohn, J. - D. (1992) Life history of Athymodes nycteis Menetries in Korea. Journal of the Amateur Lepidopterists' Society of Korea, 5, 24 - 28. (In Korean with English abstract)
- Joo, H. - Z., Kim, S. - S., & Sohn, J. - D. (1997) Butterflies of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul. 437 pp. (In Korean)
- Harada, M. & Igarashi, S. (1993) On hibernating aspects of nymphalid larvae in Asia. Butterflies, 6, 11 - 18. (In Japanese with English abstract)