Kallima albofasciata
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Kallima albofasciata is a species of oakleaf butterfly found in the Andaman Islands.
[edit] Description
Males and females upperside blue. Fore wing with a broad pure while obliquely-placed discal sinuous band, its inner margin defined in black along the discocellulars and base of interspace 3, with a round black hyaline-centred spot in interspace 2; the width of this discal band decreases posteriorly ; measured on the costal margin its outer edge is at a distance greater than half the length of the wing from base ; apical area beyond discal band black with a preapical white spot, larger in the female than in the male - Hind wing with the costal margin and apex broadly, and the abdominal fold pale earthy brown. Fore and hind wings with the usual sub-terminal dark zigzag line. Underside as in Kallima inachus. Antennae black; head, thorax and abdomen dark indigo-blue: beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen earthy brown.[1]
Expanse 96-112 mm.
[edit] Description
The Andamans.
[edit] References
- ^ Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol 1
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