Prosotas bhutea

Bhutya Lineblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Prosotas
Species: P. bhutea
Binomial name
Prosotas bhutea
(de Nicéville, 1884)
Synonyms

Nacaduba bhutea

The Bhutya Lineblue (Prosotas bhutea)[1] is a species of blue butterfly found in Asia.

Range

The butterfly is found in India from Sikkim to Assam, and extends to Karens and onto Yunnan.[1]

Description

The male upper-side is a dull opaque purplish-brown. The fore and hind wings are slender, dark anticiliary lines, but are otherwise uniform. The underside is a ground-color similar, but very much paler. The fore-wing is a transverse pale-edged fascia of a shade darker than the ground-color, as follows: one across middle of cell from costa to median vein, another from costa over the discocellulars to lower apex of cell, a discal curved fascia from coata to vein three, a spot below it shifted inwards; a transverse subterminal series of broad lunules of the same shade followed by a line of spots and an anticiliary slender line. The hind-wing has a subbasal band, a short band along the discocellulars and a highly irregular, somewhat contorted, discal band, all similar in color to those on the fore-wing. There are terminal markings as are on the fore-wing, but the lunules of the subterminal series are inwardly somewhat hastate, the row of spots beyond them each inwardly conical; a prominent black subterminal spot in interspace two, is inwardly ochraceous, and outwardly speckled with metallic blue scales. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen are a dull, purplish brown. The thorax is somewhat grizzled.

See also

Cited references

  1. 1 2 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Prosotas genus.

References


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