''Lamprolenis'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

butterfly genus of the subfamily

Satyrinae The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known divers ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

. Its one species is ''Lamprolenis nitida''.

Description

The figure ( see plate right c ) shows the characteristic of the species, a wonderful green reflection, which gradually changes distad into a more intensive and. brilliant golden bronze-colour, a decoration with which no other Indo-Australian Satyrid. can even distantly compare. The very rare female is essentially larger, paler brown, the hindwing shows only slight traces of the metallic sheen, but is instead ornamented with a very large black ocellus with brown-yellow border, which is always well developed on the forewing also. In the males as n the example figured, the anal ocellus on the upperside of the hindwing s commonly absent. According to Hagen the species flies in the woods at

Astrolabe Bay Astrolabe Bay is a large body of water off the south coast of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, located at . It is a part of the Bismarck Sea and stretches from the Cape Iris in the south to the Cape Croisilles to the north. It was discovered ...

in March. I

Hans Fruhstorfer Hans Fruhstorfer (1866 – 1922) was a German explorer, insect and shell trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Adalbert Seitz's ''Macrolepidoptera of t ...

] myself have received it from the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafe. Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln

References

Satyrini Monotypic butterfly genera Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman Taxa named by Osbert Salvin {{Satyrini-stub