Pithecops hylax
| Forest Quaker | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Pithecops |
| Species: | P. hylax |
| Binomial name | |
| Pithecops hylax Horsfield 1828 | |
The Forest Quaker (Pithecops hylax) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
Description
Male upperside: brown, in fresh specimens generally uniform, in some slightly paler along a posterior area from base outwards on the fore wing. This is more commune in the female than in the male. Underside: milk-white. Fore wing: a few very obscure specks along the costa,and a postdiscal transverse series of four transversely elongate spots, or short broad lines, pale brown; the spots of the latter arranged two subcostal and two posterior close to the tornal angle; beyond these is a continuous transverse broad brown line that gets paler posteriorly, from costa to dorsum, followed by a subterminal series of similarly-coloured transverse spots, one in each interspace; at the apox these are generally coalescent with the inner brown line; lastly an anticiliary dark brown line. Cilia dark brown. Hind wing: a curved postdiscal series of transverse pale brown spots that terminate at the costa in a prominent large rouud black spot; a continuous broad pale brown curved line followed by a subterminal dark brown series of spots and an anticiliary line as on the fore wing. Cilia white. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen brown; the antennae spotted with white on the inner side: beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen white.[1]
References
- ↑ Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2