Pale Four-line Blue | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Nacaduba |
Species: | N. hermus |
Binomial name | |
Nacaduba hermus Felder, 1860 |
The Pale Four-line Blue Nacaduba hermus is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in South Asia.
Contents |
The upperside of the male is dark purplish brown. The fore and hindwings have a black ante-ciliary lines. The hindwing has two black spots that are nearly equal, one in interspace 1 and the other in interspace 2. The spots have a silvery white edge on the outerside. The tail is black tipped with white.
The underside is hoary brown. On the underside of the fore wing there are transverse bands of the ground-colour defined by very fine white lines as follows:
each row of the subterminal series of spots is obscurely bordered inwardly and outwardly with whitish.
The hindwing has transverse bands of the ground-colour enclosed and defined as on the fore wing by short slender lunular lines of white as follows:
Interspace 1 has two minute geminate black subterminal spots, interspace 2 with one large round black similar spot crowned inwardly with ochraceous and irrorated outwardly with a few metallic blue scales; a very slender terminal white line not extended to the apex and an anticiliary dark line.
Antennae black, shafts minutely ringed with white; head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; beneath: the palpi fringed with black hairs, thorax fuscous, abdomen dull white.[1]
The female has the upperside dull leaden blue. The fore and hind wings have ante-ciliary black lines as in the male, within which on the fore wing is an obscure transverse subterminal series of black spots; on the hind wing a very slender terminal white line, a subterminal row of black spots and a postdiscal series of white lunules, the spots decreasing in size and the lunules obsolescent anteriorly. Underside: ground-colour paler than the markings, more obscure but identical with those of the male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male but all paler in colour.[1]
Sikkim; the Western Ghats; Sri Lanka; Assam; Myanmar (Tenasserim); the Andamans.[1]