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Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae For other uses, see Coreana (disambiguation).

Coreana
In Charles Oberthür's 1880 Faune des Lépidoptères de l'ile Askold
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Theclini
Genus: Coreana
Tutt, 1907
Species: C. raphaelis
Binomial name
Coreana raphaelis
(Oberthür, 1880)

Coreana is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Coreana raphaelis, which is found in the east Palearctic in Ussuri, north-east China, Korea and Japan (Honshu).

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

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