Paragerydus horsfieldi
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Allotinus horsfieldii |
The Common Darkie (Paragerydus horsfieldi) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
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Male Upperside: brown. Fore wing: an elongate oval pale patch beyond apex of cell. Hind wing: uniform, immaculate. Underside: dull white. Both fore and hind wings with numerous short, slender, transverso strigae and minute dots, brown. Fore wing: dorsal area near base below the cell but not further outwards more or less free of spots and strigae; a narrow brown transverse spot across cell near the base, another across the middle, and a third of the apex of the same; a postdiscal, sinuate, irregular, macular, transverse, broad brownish line followed by a subterminal series of similarly-coloured minute spots. Hind wing: two or three very broken similar transverse broad curved lines, sometimes clearly marked and the detached portions indicating a definite band, in other specimens very irregular and out of line with one another; this is followed by a subterminal series o£ minute brown dots as on the fore wing. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the wings; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen more or less speckled with whitish.
Female. Similar, but in all specimens I have seen invariably smaller. Underside: ground-colour of the same brown shade as in the male, the pale postcellular patch on fore wing replaced by a diffuse medial patch that spreads into the cell. Hind wing : as in the male. Underside: also similar in ground-colour and markings to that of the male, but the markings broader, more clearly defined, and less macular. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.
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