Logania distanti
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| Dark Mottle | ||||||||||||||||
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 Museum specimen from Malaya
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| Logania distanti Semper, 1889 |
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Logania massalia Doherty, 1891 |
The Dark Mottle (Logania distanti)[1] is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
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[edit] Description
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] 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)[2]
[edit] Range
Assam - Burma, Malaya, Borneo?, Thailand, Laos, Sumatra.[1]
[edit] Taxonomy
The butterfly is also referred to as Logania massalia Doherty, 1891[3].
[edit] References
- ^ a b Page on Marrku Savela's site for genus Logania (Lycaenidae).
- ^ Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2
- ^ Card for species massalia in LepIndex. Accessed 23 March 2007.
[edit] External Links
- Asahi Correctly determined photos of Logania distanti
[edit] See also
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