Sephisa princeps is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. 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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Sephisa |
| Species: | S. princeps
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Behaviour and ecology
editAdults 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.[2] 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.[3]
Subspecies
edit- Sephisa princeps princeps
- Sephisa princeps tsekouensis Nguyen, 1984 (China: Yunnan)
- Sephisa princeps chinensis Nguyen, 1984 (China: Hupei)
References
edit- ^ "Sephisa Moore, 1882" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ lepidopterology.com
- ^ Russian Insects
- Sephisa princeps at Insecta.pro
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