Logania massalia
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| Logania massalia Doherty 1891 |
The Dark Mottle (Logania massalia) is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
[edit] Description
Male upperside dark brown. Fore wing: a medial dull whitish spot at base of interspace 3 extended upwards on to vein 4 and below into interspace 2. Hind wing; uniform, immaculate. Underside: very pale dull brown, with darker brown mottlings and striae, that on the fore wing 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 hind wing the niottlings coalesce and form three or four very ill-defined, obscure, transverse, somewhat broad bands. The antennae in the only specimen of the male that I have seen were wanting; 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 fore wing from just above the upper median (vein 4) almost to the submedian vein (vein 1). Below irregularly speckled and variegated; fore wing with the costal and apical parts ochreous brown, the rest blackish. Hind wing also tinged with ochreous, a submarginal dark area, and obscure dark transverse bands. Hind wing not angled, the margin entire." (Doherty quoted in Bingham)[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2
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