Mandarinia

Mandarinia
	Mandarinia regalis, figure 2 male, 2a female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Mandarinia; Leech, [1892]
Species:	M. regalis
Binomial name
	Mandarinia regalis; (Leech, 1889)
Synonyms
	Mycalesis regalis Leech, 1889; Mandarinia regalis duchessa Fruhstorfer, 1913; Mandarinia regalis callotaenia Fruhstorfer, 1913;

Mandarinia is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae (Satyrinae). Its single species is Mandarinia regalis which has three subspecies.

Subspecies

Mandarinia regalis regalis (West China, Central China, Burma)
Mandarinia regalis baronesa Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Indo China, Burma, South Yunnan)
Mandarinia regalis obliqua Zhao, 1994 (Sichuan)

A second species, Mandarinia uemurai, Sugiyama, 1993 is described from Dujiangya Sichuan, China.

References

"Mandarinia Leech, [1892]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms