Rimisia miris is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is the sole representative of the monotypic genus Rimisia.[1]

Rimisia miris
miris in Seitz (f)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Rimisia
Zhdanko, 1994
Species:
R. miris
Binomial name
Rimisia miris
( Staudinger, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Lycaena miris Staudinger, 1881
  • Polyommatus miris (Staudinger, 1881)

According to Hans Fruhstorfer it is found in "Persia, Turkestan and Ferghana, in May and June".[2] L. miris Stgr. (79 f). Above both sexes black-brown, the female with a red submarginal band on both wings, which is only occasionally obsolescent on the forewing, the underside, which otherwise recalls orion, band also very broad and prominent and hence bears a superficial resemblance to astrarche, in which the ocelli, however, are much less regular in position than in miris. In ab. oblitescens Schultz the ocelli of the hindwing beneath have disappeared except for feeble traces.

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Rimisia Zhdanko, 1994". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Seitz, A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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