Logania distanti
Dark mottle | |
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Museum specimen from Malaya | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Logania |
Species: | L. distanti |
Binomial name | |
Logania distanti Semper, 1889 | |
Synonyms | |
Logania massalia Doherty, 1891 |
Logania distanti, the dark mottle,[1] is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Male
Upperside dark brown. Forewing: a medial dull whitish spot at base of interspace 3 extended upwards on to vein 4 and below into interspace 2. Hindwing; uniform, immaculate. Underside: very pale dull brown, with darker brown mottlings and striae, that on the forewing are absent on a broad streak from base outwards along the basal half of the dorsum, this area pale brown without markings; a dark obscure spot at apex of cell and an incomplete similarly obscure dark transverse discal band. On the hindwing the mottlings coalesce and form three or four very ill-defined, obscure, transverse, somewhat broad bands. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Sex-mark: the base of vein 4 swollen and bare of scales.
Female
"Above black, a round dull white discal area on the forewing from just above the upper median (vein 4) almost to the submedian vein (vein 1). Below irregularly speckled and variegated; forewing with the costal and apical parts ochreous brown, the rest blackish. Hindwing also tinged with ochreous, a submarginal dark area, and obscure dark transverse bands. Hindwing not angled, the margin entire." (Doherty quoted in Bingham)[2]
Range
Assam - Burma, Malaya, Borneo?, Thailand, Laos, Sumatra.[1]
Taxonomy
The butterfly is also referred to as Logania massalia Doherty, 1891.[3]
See also
References
- 1 2 Page on Markku Savela's site for genus Logania (Lycaenidae).
- ↑ Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
- ↑ Card for species massalia in LepIndex. Accessed 23 March 2007.
External links
- Asahi Correctly determined photos of Logania distanti