Bothrinia chennelli

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Hedge Cupid

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Bothrinia
Species:	B. chennelli

Binomial name

Bothrinia chennelli
(De Nicéville, 1884)

The Hedge Cupid (Bothrinia chennelli) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

[edit] Description

Male upperside: lavender-blue, varying a little in depth of tint. Forewing: a very slender line along the costa and an even border to the termen from apex to tornus dusky black. Hind wing: costal and terminal margins with even dusky black borders, slightly broader on the costa than on the termen; on the latter the black border encloses a very indistinct series of round spots of the ground-colour, each spot centred with black, which are more prominent posteriorly than anteriorly. Underside: bluish white, in some specimens slightly yellowish white; the markings small, delicate and very regular; the postdiscal transverse series of abbreviated lines on the fore wing bisinuate and nearly as in C. lanka, but the series further from the termen and the short lines that compose it not quite end to end but a little en echelon one to the other; the terminal markings on both fore and hind wings more or less obsolescent apparently at all seasons.

Female upperside : ground-colour similar to that in the male. Forewing: costa, apex and termen very broadly dusky brownish-black; over the blue area the dark veins are somewhat prominent, on the termen the black border occupies in some specimens more than one-third of the wing and in all is very even. Hind wing: the dark veins as conspicuous as on the fore wing; anterior third of wing dusky black, termen with a well-marked anticiliary line and a more or less distinct and complete subterminal series of spots. Umlerside: as in the male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen in both sexes dusky black, the antennas ringed with white; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen white.^[1]