Horaga

Horaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Horaga
(Moore, 1881).

Horaga is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae which Eliot,[1] 1973, places in the tribe Horagini of the Sub-Family Theclinae. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark post-discal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of H. araotina is aberrant.[2]

Range

The genus occurs in the Oriental Region it is distributed from Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea.

Included Taxa

Cited references

  1. Eliot, J. N. 1973. The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement Bull. BMNH 28/6.
  2. Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edition 1991.


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