Coreana is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

genus in the family

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. The genus is

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, containing the single species ''Coreana raphaelis'', which is found in the east

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Ussuri The Ussuri or Wusuli (russian: Уссури; ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and forming part of th ...

, north-east China,

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and Japan (

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). The larva feeds on '' Fraxinus'' species ('' F. rhyncophylia'', '' F. japonica'', '' F. lanuginosa'' and '' F. mandshurica'').

Subspecies

*''C. r. flamen'' (Leech, 1887) Korea *''C. r. yamamotoi'' Okano, 1953 Japan *''C. r. ohruii'' Shirôzu, 1962 Japan

External links

"''Coreana'' Tutt, [1907]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
images representing ''Coreana''
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life Theclini Monotypic butterfly genera Taxa named by J. W. Tutt Lycaenidae genera {{Theclinae-stub