''Libythea laius'', the lobed beak, is a member of the butterfly subfamily

Libytheinae The Libytheinae are a nymphalid subfamily known as snout butterflies, containing two valid genera and about ten species: six in ''Libythea'' and four in '' Libytheana''. The common name refers to the thick labial palps (pedipalps) that look like ...

found in

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, southern

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

, and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It was described by

Roland Trimen Roland Trimen FRS (29 October 1840 in London – 25 July 1916 in London) was a British-South African naturalist, best known for ''South African Butterflies'' (1887–89), a collaborative work with Colonel James Henry Bowker. He was among ...

in 1879. ''Libythea laius'' was formerly considered a synonym of '' Libythea labdaca'', which has similar dorsal wing markings, but it differs from that species in that the rectangular orange mark in the discal cell apex is fused to or separated from the discal cell base.

Subspecies

*''Libythea laius laius'' Trimen, 1879 (eastern and southern Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) *''Libythea laius lepitoides'' Moore, 1903 (southern India and Sri Lanka) *''Libythea laius tsiandava'' Grose-Smith 1891 (Madagascar)

References

External links

"''Libythea laius'' Trimen 1879"
''Tree of Life Web Project''.
"''Libythea laius'' Trimen, 1879 – Lobed Beak"
''Butterflies of India'' Butterflies described in 1879 Libythea {{Nymphalidae-stub