Ussuriana

Ussuriana
Ussuriana stygiana
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Theclinae
Tribe: Theclini
Genus:
Tutt, 1907

Ussuriana is a genus of hairstreaks in the butterfly family Lycaenidae. There are at least four described species in Ussuriana, found in the eastern Palearctic.[1][2]

Species

These four species belong to the genus Ussuriana, although the genus classification of Ussuriana igarashii has been questioned.[3][4][5][1]

  • Ussuriana fani Koiwaya, 1993 – China
    • Ussuriana fani zihaoi Huang, 2016 – China[6]
  • Ussuriana michaelis (Oberthür, 1881) – eastern Asia
  • Ussuriana stygiana (Butler, 1881) – Japan
  • Ussuriana igarashii Wang & Owada, 2009 – China

References

  1. ^ a b "Ussuriana". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  2. ^ "Ussuriana Tutt, 1907". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  3. ^ "Description of a New Subspecies of Ussuriana michaelis (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from West Yunna, China". Butterfly Science (15). 2019.
  4. ^ "Ussuriana Tutt, [1907]". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  5. ^ "genus Ussuriana Tutt, 1907". BioLib.cz. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  6. ^ Huang, Hao (July 2016). "New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Atalanta. 47 (1–2). Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen: 163. Retrieved 8 September 2022.