KENTROCHRYSALIS SIEVERSI Alphéraky, 1897

Female Kentrochrysalis sieversi. Photo: © BMNH Male Kentrochrysalis sieversi. Photo: © BMNH Male Kentrochrysalis sieversi, Kangding, Sichuan, China. HOLOTYPE of Hyloicus houlberti. Photo: © ?

TAXONOMY

Kentrochrysalis sieversi Alphéraky, 1897, in Romanoff (ed.), Mém. Lépid. 9: 164. Type locality: Corea [Korea].


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 88--90mm.


ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME

China: v-viii (Zhejiang). Russia: 6.vii (Primorskiy Kray).

Park et al. (1999) give mid May until mid August as the flight period in Korea.


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA:

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Recorded in Primorskiy Kray, Russia, on Fraxinus (Derzhavets, 1984).


PARASITOIDS


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Heilongjiang; Hebei; Beijing (Sanbao; Baihua Shan); Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan, 1500-1600m); Sichuan (Kangding; Pengshui); Yunnan (Yanmen); ?Hunan; Fujian (Longqi Shan).

South Korea: Kyonggi Prov. (Gwangleung; Chukryong-san; Cheongpyong; Myungji-san); Kangwon Prov. (Samak-san; Seolak-san; Chiak-san; Chuncheon; Jeombong-san; Bangtae-san; Odae-san; Jungseon; Bongmyung-ri; Pyungchang); North Chungchong Prov. (Mungyungsaejae; Songni-san); North Cholla Prov. (Deokyu-san); North Kyongsang Prov. (Cheongyang-san); South Kyongsang Prov. (Gaji-san).

Russia: Primorskiy Kray (Khasan; Narva).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Southern Russian Far East, northeastern China and South Korea.


Global distribution of Kentrochrysalis sieversi. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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