| Bhutya Lineblue | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Prosotas |
| Species: | P. bhutea |
| Binomial name | |
| Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, 1884) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Nacaduba bhutea |
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The Bhutya Lineblue (Prosotas bhutea)[1] is a species of blue butterfly found in Asia.
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The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim to Assam and extends to Karens and onto Yunnan.[1]
Male upperside: dull opaque purplish-brown. Fore and hind wings: slender dark anticiliary lines, otherwise uniform. Underside : ground-colour similar but very much paler. Fore wing: transverse pale-edged fascia) of a shade darker than the groundcolour as follows:—one across middle of cell from costa to median vein, another from costa over the discocellulars to lower apex of cell, a discal curved fascia from coata to vein 3, a spot below it shifted inwards ; a transverse subterminal series of broad lunules of the same shade followed by a line of spots and an anticiliary slender line. Hind wing: a subbasal band, a short band along the discocellulars and a highly irregular somewhat contorted discal band, all similar in colour to those on the fore wing; terminal markings as on the fore wing, but the lunules of the subterminal series inwardly somewhat hastate, the row of spots beyond them each inwardly conical; a prominent black subterminal spot in interspace 2, inwardly ochraceous, outwardly speckled with metallic blue scales. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull purplish brown; beneath : thorax somewhat grizzled.[2]