Melanargia epimede is an east Palaearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in eastern Mongolia, northeastern China, Korea and Japan. The larva on feeds on Agrostis clavata.[1]

Melanargia epimede
M. epimede - Koksharovka, Cheguyevsky District, Russia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melanargia
Species:
M. epimede
Binomial name
Melanargia epimede
Synonyms
  • Melanargia meridionalis var. epimede Staudinger, 1892

Description in Seitz: "meridionalis Fldr. (= epimede Stgr. (39 c) is a large form which is broadly black above and appears to occur chiefly at Ning-po and Kiu-kiang. The ocelli of the underside especially are enormously developed. — An aberration which is melanotic on both surfaces, bearing only reduced whitish smears between the veins on the otherwise quite dark wings, is ab. lugens Honr. (39 d); it is known from Central China."

References

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  1. ^ "Melanargia Meigen, 1828" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms