Polygonia interposita is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Ghissar to the Altai Mountains, north-western China, the Himalayas and Mongolia.[1] The habitat consists of gorges and slopes up to 2,500 meters above sea level.

Polygonia interposita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Polygonia
Species:
P. interposita
Binomial name
Polygonia interposita
(Staudinger, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Vanessa (Grapta) c-album var. interposita Staudinger, 1881
  • Nymphalis interposita
  • Polygonia chitralica Evans, 1932
  • Polygonia interposita cognata Moore, 1892

Adults are on wing from March to October in two generations per year.[2]

Subspecies

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  • Polygonia interposita interposita (Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai, Tian-Shan, Saur, Tarbagatai, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Altai)
  • Polygonia interposita adya Churkin, 2003 (Mongolia)
  • Polygonia interposita tibetana Elwes, 1888 (north-western China)

References

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  1. ^ "Nymphalis Kluk, 1780" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Russian Insects