Parantica sita (Kollar, [1844])

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Danainae → tribe Danaini → subtribe Danaina → genus Parantica → species Parantica sita

Species name(s)

Parantica sita (Kollar, [1844]) = Danais sita Kollar, [1844] = Caduga loochooana Moore, 1883 = Danaus sita = Parantica sita sita = Danais tytia Gray & Doubleday, 1846 = Chittira tira Fruhstorfer, 1899. [3, 9, 187]

Chestnut Tiger.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15109

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Indo-Malayan.

Russia regions

#38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Regions of Russia: Primorye, Sakhalin and South Kuril. [3].

Imago lifespan

Mid-August - the beginning of October [PC106].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Plants of the family Asclepiaceae.
Vincetoxicum acuminatum (Lastoven pointed); Metaplexis japonica (Japanese Metapleksis); Cynanchum caudatum (Lastoven tailed) [PC93].

Subspecies of Parantica sita

Parantica sita ethologa (Swinhoe, 1899). [9]
P. s. melanosticta Morishita, 1994. [9]
P. s. niphonica (Moore, 1883). [9]
P. s. oblita Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979. [9]
P. s. sita. [9]
P. s. tytia (Gray, 1846). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Yuri Semejkin.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Sergei Kotov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC93] Vasiliy Feoktistov
[PC106] Sergei Kotov