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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