Aslauga

Aslauga
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Miletinae
Genus: Aslauga
Kirby, 1890
Synonyms
  • Egumbia Bethune-Baker, 1924
  • Paraslauga Bethune-Baker, 1925
  • Euliphyrodes Romieux, 1937

Aslauga is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropic ecozone.They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora [1] They are forest butterflies Congolian forests (Congolian forests, Lower Guinean forests).

Genus ASLAUGA, gen. nov. Original description

"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".[2]

Species

References

  1. "Aslauga". BOLD.
  2. Kirby,W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 (33) : 261-274

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

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