Aglais rizana

Mountain tortoiseshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Aglais
Species:	A. rizana
Binomial name
	Aglais rizana; (Moore, 1872)
Synonyms
	Vanessa rizana Moore, 1872[1]; Nymphalis rizana[1];

Aglais rizana, the mountain tortoiseshell, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Asia.[1][2]

Distribution

Pamirs to Alay Range, Afghanistan, northwest Himalayas.

Description

Aglais rizana

Frederic Moore (1872) gives a detailed description for Vanessa rizana:

Male. Differs from V. cashmirensis in being a smaller and more compact insect, and having the fore wing less produced at the apex ;markings and colours disposed as in that species, but more clearly denned and the colours much brighter : fore wing with the red colour near the base descending to near the submedian vein, the posterior black spot being quadrate, well denned, and broadly bordered outward with clear yellow, this colour also bordering the two upper discal spots ; submarginal black border narrow : hind wing with the

black base bordered outwardly by clear yellow ; the submarginal row of dentate blue-centred black lunules being without the broad inner dusky border. Underside darker than in V. cashmirensis ; markings similar. Expanse 1-7/8 inch.

Hab. Cheeni (9000 feet), Middle Kunawur, N.W. Himalaya.
— Frederic Moore[3]

References

Nymphalis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 218. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1872). Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 559.

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[funet-1] Nymphalis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[Smetacek-2] R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 218. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.

[3] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1872). Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 559.