Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lethe | |
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Similar Neope goschkevitschii, Neope niphonica, Lethe diana, Araschnia burejana, Ypthima argus | ||
Lethe callipteris is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family (Satyrinae). It is found in the East Palearctic where it is endemic to Japan, Sakhalin (L. c. karafutonis Matsumura, 1925) and the Kuriles (L. c. obscura Nakahara, 1926).
The larva feeds on Sasa and Pleioblastus, etc. (Graminae). It has single generation and hibernates as a larva.
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