| Taxon | Melanargia epimede |
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| Authority | Staudinger, 1892 |
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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