Ancema blanka
| Silver royal | |
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| A. b. minturna Courvoisier Collection, Basel | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Ancema |
| Species: | A. blanka |
| Binomial name | |
| Ancema blanka (de Nicéville, 1895) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pratapa blanka Evans | |
Ancema blanka, the silver royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.
Subspecies
- A. b. blanka South India, Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Sumatra
- A. b. minturna (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Thailand, Laos, Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan
- A. b. nacandra (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Java
- A. b. sudica (Evans, 1926) South India
- A. b. reina Schröder & Treadaway, 1998
Habits
They fly very fast. During summers, the male occasionally comes to water but usually keeps to the treetops and rocks, especially on the summit of hills, where they basks in the sun with the wings half open. Silver Royals can sometimes be seen sitting on the dung of animals and by the sides of small streams and waterfalls.[2] Females are rarely seen.[3]
References
- ↑ de Nicéville, 1894 On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 63 Pt.II (1) : 1-59, pl. 1-5
- ↑ A Pictorial Guide Butterflies of Gorumara National Park (2013 ed.). Department of Forests Government of West Bengal. p. 95.
- ↑ Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957). Butterflies of the Indian region (First Edition ed.). Bombay: The Bombay Natural History Society. p. 338-339.
External links
- Asahinet Photographs of correctly determined specimens of Ancema blanka from the Philippines
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