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Kirinia Moore, 1893

Kirinia Moore, 1893; Lepidoptera Indica 2 (13): 14, TS: Lasiommata epimenides Ménétriés
Esperarge Nekrutenko, 1988
Esperia Nekrutenko, 1987; (preocc.)
Esperella Nekrutenko, 1987; (preocc.)
Kirinia, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Kirinia (Lethina) ; [Wahlberg]

Kirinia roxelana (Cramer, [1777])

SEEU, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq. See [About maps] Lattice Brown
Papilio roxelana Cramer, [1777]; Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9-16): pl. 161, f. C, F
Kirinia roxelana, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Kirinia roxelana, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Kirinia roxelana, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Kirinia roxelana, Europaische Schmetterlinge [Mario Maier]
Kirinia roxelana, Captain's European Butterfly Guide [Simon Coombes]
Kirinia roxelana ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 7, f. 9]
Pararge roxelana ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Kirinia epimenides (Ménétriés, 1859)

Amur, E, China, Korea, Ussuri, Japan. See [About maps] Lasiommata epimenides Ménétriés, 1859; in Schrenck, Reise Forschungen Amur-Lande 2 (1) : 39, pl. 3, f. 8-9, TL: S.Amur region
Neope fentoni Butler, 1877; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19 (109) : 91

= ; [NHM]

Kirinia epimenides, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Kirinia epimenides, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Lethe epimenides ;
Kirinia epimenides ; [BRU, 184]
?Pararge(?) epimenides ; [BOW: pl. 204, f. 14 (text only)]

400x533 (~65Kb) underside male An open birch/larch forest on a local top of a mountain massif at the Polovinnaya Pad' valley left board few km of the Argun' River left bank 12 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

K. e. atratus Kurentzov, 1941

Kirinia epaminondas (Staudinger, 1887)

Amur, E.China, Korea, Japan. See [About maps] Pararge epaminondas Staudinger, 1887; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 150, pl. 17, f. 1-2, TL: Radd, S.Amur region
Kirinia epaminondas, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Kirinia epaminondas, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Kirinia epaminondas ; [BRU, 184]; [MRS, 360]

Larva on Poa ochotensis, P. angustifolia, Brachypodium, (etc.) [BRU, Fukuda et al., 1983]

Kirinia climene (Esper, 1783)

Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, S.Russia. See [About maps] Papilio climene Esper, 1783; Die Schmett. Th. I, Bd. 2 (8): 165, pl. 85, f. 1-3, TL: Lower Volga flow, S.Russia
?clymene (Fabricius, 1787)
Kirinia climene, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Kirinia climene, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Esperarge climene ; [BRU, 185]
Kirinia climene ;
Pararge climene ; [BOW: pl. 204, f. 3]; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Poa annua [BRU, Hesselbarth et al., 1995]

K. c. roxandra (Herrich-Schäffer, [1850])

Caucasus, Transcausia valentinae Miller, 1923
tkatshukovi Sheljuzhko, 1925

Kirinia eversmanni (Eversmann, 1847)

SE.Kazakhstan, S.Kazakhstan, Ghissaro-Darvaz, Pamiro-Alai, Afghanistan, N.Pakistan, Kashmir. See [About maps] Hipparchia eversmanni Eversmann, 1847; Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 20 (3): pl. 2, f. 5-6, TL: "Lepsa" [Lepsinsk, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Kazakhstan]
Kirinia eversmanni, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Esperarge eversmanni ; [BRU, 186]
Pararge eversmanni ; [BOW: pl. 204, f. 6]
Lasiommata eversmanni ; [MRS, 359]
Kirinia eversmanni ; [Oleg Kosterin]

600x622 (~142Kb) underside The Kora River gorge about 5 km upstream of its mouth at the town Tekeli, The birch forest/steppe belt, the Northern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain, the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 11th August 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

K. e. unicolor Grum-Grshimailo, 1892

Ghissar, Alai

K. e. cashmirensis (Moore, 1874)

W.Pamirs Lasiommata eversmanni cashmirensis ; [MRS, 359]

K. e. shiva (Wyatt, 1961)

Afghanistan Pararge eversmanni shiva Wyatt, 1961; J. Lep. Soc. 15 (1): 9, TL: Shiva Mts., NE. Badakhshan, 9000ft

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References:

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[BOW]

Lewis, 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[BRU]

Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae; Volume 1

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[ESP]

Heppner, 1981; The dates of E. J. C. Esper's Die Schmetterlinge in Abblidungen... 1776-[1830]; Archives of Natural History (1981) 10 (2): 251-254

[MBE]

Moths and Butteflies of Europe; Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Mario Maier]

Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier

[NHM]

Natural History Museum; The Global Lepidoptera Names Index

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[SVF]

Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)

[SZMN]

Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum

[Simon Coombes]

1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

Some related literature:

Butler, 1877

On Rhopalocera from Japan and Shanghai, with Descriptions of new Species Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19 (109) : 91-97

Cramer, [1777]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9-16): 1-152, pl. 97-192 (1777)

Esper, 1783

Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Theil I. Die Tagschmetterlinge. Fortsetzung. Band 2 Die Schmett. Th. I, Bd. 2 (1): 1-36, pl. 51-56 (1780), (2): 37-68, pl. 57-62 (1781), (3): 69-100, pl. 63-68 (1781), (4): 101-124, pl. 69-74 (1781), (5): 125-140, pl. 75-80 (1782), (7): 141-156, pl. 81-82 (1783), (8): 157-172, pl. 83-88 (1783), (9): 173-184, pl. 89-92 (1784), (28): 185-190, pl. 93 (1786)

Eversmann, 1847

Lepidoptera quaedam nova Rossiae et Sibiriae indigena descripsit et delineavit Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 20 (3) : 66-83, 6 pls.

Ménétriés, 1859

Lépidoptères de la Sibérie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour in Schrenck, Reise Forschungen Amur-Lande 2 (1) : 1-75, pl. 1-5

Moore, 1893

Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera. Family Nymphalidae. Sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina) Lepidoptera Indica 2 (13): 1-32, pl. 95-100 (1893), (14): 33-64, pl. 101-107 (1893), (15): 65-88, pl. 108-114 (1893), (16): 89-112, pl. 115-122 (1893), (17): 113-136, pl. 123-130 (1894), (18): 137-160, pl. 131-138 (1894), (19): 161-176, pl. 139-146 (1894), (20): 177-192, pl. 147-154 (1895), (21): 193-208, pl. 155-162 (1895), (22): 209-232, pl. 163-170 (1895), (23): 233-248, pl. 171-180 (1895), (24): 249-274, pl. 181-190 ([1896])

Staudinger, 1887

Neue Arten und Varietäten von Lepidopteren aus dem Amur-Gebiete in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 126-232, pl. 6-12, 16-17

Tytler, 1914

Notes on some new and interesting butterflies from Manipur and the Naga Hills. Part 1-3 J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 23 (2): 216-229 (1914), 23 (3): 502-515, pl. 1-2 (1915), 24 (1): 119-155, pl. 3-4 (1915)

Notes on some new and interesting butterflies from Manipur and the Naga Hills. Part 3

Wyatt, 1961

Additions to the Rhopalocera of Afghanistan with descriptions of new species and subspecies J. Lep. Soc. 15 (1): 1-18, 3pls

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