''Jamides alecto'', the metallic cerulean,
[ is a small species of ]butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
found in the Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
Wallace line
The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.
It separates the biogeographic realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a ...
into the Australasian realm
The Australasian realm is one of eight biogeographic realms that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua Ne ...
(Celebes). It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Charles Swinhoe
Colonel Charles Swinhoe (27 August 1838 in CalcuttaAlthough many published sources give 1836, the India Office Records note it as 1838 (), the other year being that of his brother Robert. – 2 December 1923) was an English naturalist and lepido ...
described the subspecies ''J. a. alocina'' on 1915 as follows:
"Upperside milky white tinged with pale lavender-blue, the inner surface of the fore wing and the upper half of the hind wing palest: fore wing with a fine grey costal line; a grey marginal narrow band: hind wing with a submarginal series of small and short black lunular marks, edged with white on both sides, and a fine black marginal line. Under-side pale pinkish grey, markings white but indistinct: fore wing with two lines across the end of the cell, continued to the hinder margin beyond its middle, two dislocated lines beyond in the fourth, fifth, and sixth interspaces, with a line in the third interspace from between the last two; two rows of submarginal lines and an indistinct marginal line, all three dislocated by the veins: hind wing with three rows of transverse double lines at equal distances apart, and a marginal series, all dislocated by the veins ; a brownish spot touched with red near the anal angle."
Subspecies
*''J. a. alecto'' Moluccas
*''J. a. kondulana'' (Felder, 1862) Nicobars
*''J. a. latimargus'' (Snellen, 1878) Sulawesi
*''J. a. elpidion'' (Doherty, 1891) Enggano
*''J. a. mentawica'' (Hagen, 1902) Mentawai
*''J. a. dromicus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Taiwan
*''J. a. alocina'' Swinhoe, 1915 Sri Lanka, South India - Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, S.China, Malay Peninsula
*''J. a. espada'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Sulawesi
*''J. a. eurysaces'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) North India, Assam - Thailand
*''J. a. meilichius'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Ceylon
*''J. a. thanetus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Nias
*''J. a. ozea'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Sikkim
*''J. a. ageladas'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Sumatra
*''J. a. alvenus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Selajar
*''J. a. horsfieldi'' (Toxopeus, 1929) Java
*''J. a. simalurana'' (Toxopeus, 1930) Simalue
*''J. a. luniger'' (Toxopeus, 1930) Sulawesi
*''J. a. manilana'' (Toxopeus, 1930) Philippines
*''J. a. fusca'' Evans, 1932 Andamans
*''J. a. kawazoei'' Hayashi, 977
Year 977 ( CMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* May – Boris II, dethroned emperor (''tsar'') of Bulgaria, and his brother Roman manage to escape from captivity in Const ...
/small> Palawan
The larva feeds on ''Elettaria cardamomum
''Elettaria cardamomum'', commonly known as green cardamom or true cardamom, is a herbaceous plant, herbaceous, perennial plant in the Zingiberaceae, ginger family, native to southern India. It is the most common of the species whose seeds are u ...
'', ''Hevea
''Hevea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, with about ten members. It is also one of many names used commercially for the wood of the most economically important rubber tree, '' H. brasiliensis''. The genus is ...
'',
''Pueraria
''Pueraria'' is a genus of 15–20 species of legumes native to south, east, and southeast Asia and to New Guinea and northern Australia. The best known member is kudzu, also called Japanese arrowroot. The genus is named after 19th century Swiss ...
'', ''Alpinia
''Alpinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. Species are native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, where they occur in tropical and subtropical climates.[Boesenbergia
''Boesenbergia'' is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains more than 90 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.).
Species
''Plants of the World Online'' ...]
'', ''Curcuma
''Curcuma'' () is a genus of plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam tulip. They are native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea and northern Australia. Some spe ...
'', ''Elettaria
''Elettaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. They are native to India and Sri Lanka, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. One member of the genus, '' E. cardamomum'', is a commercially important spice used as ...
'', ''Hedychium
''Hedychium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, native to lightly wooded habitats in Asia. There are approximately 70-80 known species, native to India, Southeast Asia, and Madagascar. Some species have become wi ...
'', ''Kaempferia
''Kaempferia'' is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia.
The genus is named after the naturalist and traveller Engelbert Kaempfer, who lived in Japan and east Asia for the years 1689-1693 and wa ...
'' and ''Zingiber
''Zingiber'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Zingiberaceae. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. It contains the true gingers, plants grown the world over for their culi ...
'' attended by ants.
See also
*List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, is ...
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
This list is based on Evans (1932) and includes 318 species bel ...
References
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External links
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Jamides
Butterflies described in 1860
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Oceania
Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder
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