Prosotas dubiosa

Tailless lineblue
In Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Prosotas
Species:	P. dubiosa
Binomial name
Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, 1879)

In Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India

Prosotas dubiosa, the tailless lineblue or small purple line blue,^[1][2] is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka and peninsular India and the Himalayas from Sikkim to Assam. The range extends onto Myanmar and Yunnan, and, possibly Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Possibly Philippines and Sulawesi. Further east the butterfly occurs in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon islands. In Australia the butterfly occurs from Northern Australia to New South Wales (Coffs Harbour).^[2]

Gallery

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  In Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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  In Talakona forest, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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  In Hyderabad, India
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  In Hyderabad, India
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  In Narsapur, Medak district, India
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See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

Cited references

1. ↑ Card for Prosotas dubiosa in LepIndex. Accessed 31 December 2006.
2. 1 2 "Prosotas Druce, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms

References

• Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15. 
• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. 
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences. 
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. 
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545. 
• "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera". 
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. 

External links

• Asahi Correctly determined photos of P. dubiosa from the Philippines