Aslauga

''Aslauga'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in '' A. pandora''. They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.

Original description by William Forsell Kirby:

"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex".Kirby,W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (6) 6 (33): 261-274

Species

*''Aslauga abri'' Collins & Libert, 1997
*''Aslauga atrophifurca'' Cottrell, 1981
*''Aslauga aura'' Druce, 1913
*''Aslauga australis'' Cottrell, 1981
*''Aslauga bella'' Bethune-Baker, 1913
*''Aslauga bitjensis'' Bethune-Baker, 1925
*''Aslauga bouyeri'' Libert, 1994
*''Aslauga camerunica'' Stempffer, 1969
*''Aslauga confusa'' Libert, 1994
*''Aslauga ernesti'' (Karsch, 1895)
*''Aslauga febe'' (Libert, 1994)
*''Aslauga guineensis'' Collins & Libert, 1997
*''Aslauga imitans'' Libert, 1994
*''Aslauga kallimoides'' Schultze, 1912
*''Aslauga karamoja'' (Libert, 1994)
*''Aslauga katangana'' (Romieux, 1937)
*''Aslauga lamborni'' Bethune-Baker, 1914
*''Aslauga latifurca'' Cottrell, 1981
*''Aslauga marginalis'' Kirby, 1890
*''Aslauga marshalli'' Butler, 1898
*''Aslauga modesta'' Schultze, 1923
*'' Aslauga orientalis'' Cottrell, 1981
*''Aslauga pandora'' Druce, 1913
*''Aslauga prouvosti'' Libert & Bouyer, 1997
*''Aslauga purpurascens'' Holland, 1890
*''Aslauga satyroides'' Libert, 1994
*''Aslauga tanga'' Libert & Collins, 1997
*''Aslauga vininga'' (Hewitson, 1875)

References

Libert, M. 1994. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains: Mise au point sur le genre ''Aslauga'' Kirby. ''Lambillionea'', 94 (3) : 411–434.

External links

''Aslauga''
at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
Seitz A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64Images
at BOLD
Fauna Africains Libert

Miletinae
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by William Forsell Kirby
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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