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Damora Nordmann, 1851

Damora Nordmann, 1851; Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 24 (4): 439, TS: Damora paulina Nordman

= Argynnis ; [Wahlberg]

Damora, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]

Damora sagana (Doubleday, [1847])

China, Mongolia, SE.Siberia, Japan. See [About maps] Argynnis sagana Doubleday, [1847]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): pl. 21, f. 1, TL: N. China
Damora sagana, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Damora sagana, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Argynnis sagana ; [BARU]; [BRU2: 35, pl. 21, f. 5-8]
Damora sagana ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 194, f. 18-19]; [MRS, 470]

Larva on Viola grypoceras, V. verecunda, V. eizanensis [MRS], Viola uniflora [BRU2, 35 (Korshunov & Gorbunov, 1995)]

D. s. sagana

NE.China Argynnis sagana sagana
Argynnis sagana sagana ; [BRU2, 35]

D. s. liane (Fruhstorfer, 1907)

Japan Argynnis sagana liane Fruhstorfer, 1907; Soc. Ent. 22 (9) : 67, TL: Nagasaki, Iki I.
Argynnis sagana ilona Fruhstorfer, 1907; Soc. Ent. 22 (9) : 67, TL: Tsushima I.
Argynnis sagana liane ; [BRU2, 35]
Argynnis sagana ilona ; [BRU2, 35]

D. s. relicta Korshunov, 1984

Sayan (western range east to the piedmonts) Damora sagana relicta Korshunov, 1984; , TL: Kemerovo
Argynnis sagana relicta ; [BRU2, 35]
Damora sagana relicta ; [Oleg Kosterin]

800x600 (~108Kb) underside female 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	533x400 (~57Kb) larva A southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	514x403 (~26Kb) upperside male Tall herbage on a woody Bol'shoi Tesh River right bank 7 km NEE of the village Kuzedeevo, the piedmonts of Gornaya Shoria Mts., Novokuznetsk District., Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 27th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
533x400 (~40Kb) underside male Tall herbage on a woody Bol'shoi Tesh River right bank 7 km NEE of the village Kuzedeevo, the piedmonts of Gornaya Shoria Mts., Novokuznetsk District., Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 27th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	300x400 (~19Kb) pupa 3th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

D. s. paulina Nordman, 1851

Argynnis paulina Nordmann, 1851; Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 24 (4): 440, pl. 11, f. 1-2, TL: vic. Irkutsk
nordmanni Korshunov, 1984²; , TL: Amur, Blagoveschensk
Argynnis sagana paulina ; [BRU2, 35]
Argynnis sagana nordmanni ; [BRU2, 35]
Damora sagana paulina ; [Oleg Kosterin]

533x400 (~47Kb) upperside female An open larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.)/birch (Betula pendula Roth. and B. davurica Pall.) forest above the left bluff of the Budyumkan River valley 5 km of its confluence with the Argun' River 6 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 2nd August 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

800x600 (~97Kb) underside female An open larch/birch stand on a southern slope of the Polovinnaya Pad' valley few kilometres of the Argun' River left bank 13 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BARU]

Korshunov, Y. P., Gorbunov, P. Y.; Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia; English translation by Oleg Kosterin; [Dnevnye babochki aziatskoi chasti Rossii. Spravochnik]

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[BOW]

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

[BRU2]

Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2

[EBW]

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

[LAMAS-2005]

Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)

[MRS]

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

[Oleg Kosterin]

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

[SZMN]

Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum

[Wahlberg]

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

[²]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Doubleday, [1847]

The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29, 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)

Fruhstorfer, 1907

Neue Argynnis Soc. Ent. 22 (9) : 67-68 (1 August)

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