Mimathyma schrenckii ( Ménétriès, 1859 ), Menetries, 1859

Lee, Young June, 2009, Apaturinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Korean Peninsula: Synonymic Lists and Keys to Tribes, Genera and Species, Zootaxa 2169, pp. 1-20 : 11-12

Mimathyma schrenckii ( Ménétriès, 1859)

( Fig. 16 )

Adolias schrenckii Ménétriès, 1859: 215 (schrenkii [sic]) [Type locality: “montagnes du Chingan”, Amur region]; Leech, 1887: 419 (schrenki [sic]); Lee, 1973: 6; Shin, 1975: 45.

Apatura schrenckii: Fixsen, 1887: 292 (first record from Korea); Leech, 1893: 154; Staudinger and Rebel, 1901: 21; Stichel, 1908: 164; Nire, 1918: 96; Doi, 1919: 122; Doi, 1928: 50; Maruda, 1929: 127; Doi, 1931: 45; Nakayama, 1932: 379; Seok, 1934: 719; Mori et al., 1934: 32; Seok, 1936: 62; Kishida and Nakamura, 1936: 517; Seok, 1939a: 179; Seok, 1939b: 62; Seok, 1942: 87; Seok and Umitatsu, 1942: 186; Kim and Mi, 1956: 396; Seok, 1973: 92.

Bremeria schrenckii: Moore , [1896]: 10; Lee, 1971: 12.

Mimathyma schrenckii: Inomata, 1982 : xviii; Lee, 1982: 74; Masui and Inomata, 1991: 11; Chou, 1994: 432; Tuzov et al., 2000: 15; Lee, 2005: 27.

Amuriana schrenckii: Korshunov and Gorbunov, 1995: 72 .

Subspecies. The Korean populations are considered to belong to the nominal subspecies.

Adult. Active from mid June to early September (one brood). Males are often encountered on the ground near streams or forest paths ( Fig. 16 ) and are attracted to decomposing organisms or fermenting fluids, especially fluxes issuing from oak trees. They do not engage in hilltopping but often circle above trees rapidly in the afternoon. Females are rarely seen on fermenting fluids or near mountain peaks or ridges. Mating occurs on the leaves of the food trees or other trees nearby in the afternoon. See Sohn and Kim (1993).

Larval host plants. Ulmus davidiana var. japonica (Rehder) Nakai , Ulmus parvifolia Jacq. , Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Makino , etc. of the family Ulmaceae ( Joo et al. 1997) . In Russia, Carpinus cordata Blume (of Betulaceae ) and Ulmus laciniata (Trautv.) Mayr were also reported by Kurentzov (1970).

Life cycle. See Sohn and Kim (1993) and Harada and Igarashi (1993). Eggs are laid one by one on leaves of the host plants. Larvae are solitary. Usually the 3rd instar larvae hibernate on diverging points of two branches, in furrows of trunks, on twigs or rarely on fallen leaves of the food plants.

Distribution. Korea (including some adjacent islands of Incheon and Gyeonggi-do, but not on Jejudo Is.), China and Russia (Amur, Ussuri).

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 17. Males of Mimathyma schrenckii and Dilipa fenestra puddling on wet ground. 16. Mimathyma schrenckii (Ménétriès), Mt. Jaeansan, Korea, 7 July 2006; 17. Dilipa fenestra (Leech), Gwangneung, Korea, 13 May 2004.