Prosotas dubiosa

Tailless Lineblue

in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Prosotas
Species:	P. dubiosa
Binomial name
*Prosotas dubiosa* (Semper, 1879)

in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.

The Tailless Lineblue (Prosotas dubiosa)^[1]^[2] is a species of blue butterfly found in Asia. It is called the Small Purple Line Blue in Australia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka and peninsular India and Himalayas from Sikkim to Assam. The range extends onto Myanmar and Yunnan, and, possibly Thailand. Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Possibly Philippines and Sulawesi. Further East the butterfly occurs in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon islands. In Australia the butterfly occurs from Northern Australia to New South Wales (Coffs Harbour).^[2]

Cited references

↑ Card for Prosotas dubiosa in LepIndex. Accessed 31 December 2006.
1 2 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Prosotas genus.

References

Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 14 October 2006].
Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
Kunte,Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera .
Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

External links

Asahi Correctly determined photos of P. dubiosa from the Philippines

Gallery

in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
in Hyderabad, India.
in Hyderabad, India.
in Narsapur, Medak district, India.

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