Karanasa leechi is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Asia, including the Darvaz Range in the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush.
The habitat consists of xerophytic slopes with thin vegetation at 3,500 to 4,700 meters above sea level.
Adults are on wing from July to August.
Subspecies
- Karanasa leechi leechi (Pamirs)
- Karanasa leechi intermedius <small>Grum-Grshimailo, 1890</small> (Zaalaisky Mountains)
- Karanasa leechi erubescens <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (Peter I Mountains)
- Karanasa leechi alitchura <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (southern Pamirs)
- Karanasa leechi centralis <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (eastern Pamirs)
- Karanasa leechi gregorii <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (south-western Chinese Turkestan)
- Karanasa leechi mihmana <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (south-eastern Pamirs)
- Karanasa leechi hunza <small>Avinoff & Sweadner, 1951</small> (north-western India (Hunza Valley))
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