title: Sephisa princeps
text: # 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)
  