Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Sephisa | |
Similar Luehdorfia puziloi, Mimathyma, Hestina, Sasakia, Dilipa fenestra | ||
sephisa princeps fixsen
Sephisa princeps is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It was described by Johann Heinrich Fixsen in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri), north-eastern China and Korea. The habitat consists of oak forests.
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Adults are on wing from July to August.
Females occur in tree crowns while males, usually solitary, often occur on puddles. The female lays eggs in a convolute leaf by some dozens at a time.
The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica. Larvae of first two instars live gregariously. There are a total of five instars. The pupation takes place in a pupa hanging on the leaf petiole.
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