Polygonia interposita is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Ghissar to the Altai Mountains, north-western China, the Himalayas and Mongolia.[1] The habitat consists of gorges and slopes up to 2,500 meters above sea level.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Polygonia |
Species: | P. interposita
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Binomial name | |
Polygonia interposita (Staudinger, 1881)
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Adults are on wing from March to October in two generations per year.[2]
Subspecies
edit- Polygonia interposita interposita (Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai, Tian-Shan, Saur, Tarbagatai, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Altai)
- Polygonia interposita adya Churkin, 2003 (Mongolia)
- Polygonia interposita tibetana Elwes, 1888 (north-western China)
References
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- ^ "Nymphalis Kluk, 1780" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Russian Insects