Polygonia interposita

Polygonia interposita is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Ghissar to the Altai Mountains, north-western China, the Himalayas and Mongolia.^[1] The habitat consists of gorges and slopes up to 2,500 meters above sea level.

Polygonia interposita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Polygonia
Species:	P. interposita
Binomial name
Polygonia interposita (Staudinger, 1881)
Synonyms
Vanessa (Grapta) c-album var. interposita Staudinger, 1881 Nymphalis interposita Polygonia chitralica Evans, 1932 Polygonia interposita cognata Moore, 1892

Adults are on wing from March to October in two generations per year.^[2]

Subspecies

• Polygonia interposita interposita (Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai, Tian-Shan, Saur, Tarbagatai, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Altai)
• Polygonia interposita adya Churkin, 2003 (Mongolia)
• Polygonia interposita tibetana Elwes, 1888 (north-western China)