''Anthene lycaenina'', the pointed ciliate blue,
[ is a small ]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 India
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that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family found in 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 ...
.Cajetan Felder
Baron Cajetan von Felder (; 19 September 1814 – 30 November 1894) was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878.
Life and career
Felder was born in Wieden, today the fourth dis ...
in 1868.
Description
It closely resembles '' Anthene emolus''. In both sexes however, but especially in the male, the forewing is distinctly narrower and more acute at apex and the hindwing more acutely angulated at the tornus. In markings on the upperside the two forms are closely alike; on the underside they differ as follows: Ground colour similar but a shade darker. Forewing: the transverse discal band dislocated below vein 3 and shifted inwards so that the short band on the discocellulars and the anterior portion of the discal band form the two branches, the lower portion of the discal band the stem, of a rough Y-shaped figure. Hindwing: a large black or dark brown white-encircled spot touching vein 7 near its base (in ''A. emolus'' there is never any trace of such spot). The discal and terminal transverse bands with their pale or white edgings much more broken, irregular and confused. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the female of ''A. emolus'', but on the underside the palpi, thorax and abdomen whiter with a slight bluish tint.
Subspecies
*''A. l. lycaenina'' (Sri Lanka, southern India)
*''A. l. lycambes'' (Hewitson, 1878) (north-western India to Indo China, Hainan, southern Yunnan)
*''A. l. togata'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Java, Lombok, Sumbawa)
*''A. l. villosina'' (Fruhstorfer, 1923) (Philippines: Luzon)
*''A. l. miya'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Simeulue)
See also
*Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...
*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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lycaenina
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies described in 1868
Butterflies of Singapore
Butterflies of Borneo
Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder