Sephisa princeps

Sephisa princeps is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Heinrich Fixsen in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri), north-eastern China and Korea. The habitat consists of oak forests.

Behaviour and ecology
Adults are on wing from July to August.

Females occur in tree crowns while males, usually solitary, often occur on puddles. The female lays eggs in a convolute leaf by some dozens at a time.

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica. Larvae of first two instars live gregariously. There are a total of five instars. The pupation takes place in a pupa hanging on the leaf petiole.

Subspecies

 * Sephisa princeps princeps
 * Sephisa princeps tsekouensis Nguyen, 1984 (China: Yunnan)
 * Sephisa princeps chinensis Nguyen, 1984 (China: Hupei)