''Rimisia miris'' is a
species
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of
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 ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly ...
. It is the sole representative of the
monotypic
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genus
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''Rimisia''.
According to
Hans Fruhstorfer
Hans Fruhstorfer (7 March 1866, in Passau, Germany – 9 April 1922, in Munich) was a German explorer, insect trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in A ...
it is found in "Persia, Turkestan and Ferghana, in May and June".
[ Seitz, A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) ] L. miris Stgr. (79 f). Above both sexes black-brown, the female with a red submarginal band on both wings,
which is only occasionally obsolescent on the forewing, the underside, which otherwise recalls ''
orion'', band also very broad and prominent and hence bears a superficial resemblance to ''
astrarche'', in which the ocelli, however, are much less regular in position than in ''miris''. In ab. ''oblitescens'' Schultz the ocelli of the hindwing beneath have disappeared except for feeble traces.
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