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List Of Butterflies Of India (Lycaenidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India. This list is based on Evans (1932) and includes 318 species belonging to 76–128 genera depending on taxonomy. Subfamily Poritiinae Genus ''Poritia'' – gems * Blue gem, '' Poritia erycinoides'' ( C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865) * Common gem, '' Poritia hewitsoni'' Moore, 1865 * Green gem, '' Poritia pleurata'' Hewitson, 1874 * '' Poritia phama'' H. Druce, 1895 Genus ''Simiskina'' – brilliants * Broad-banded brilliant, '' Simiskina phalena'' ( Hewitson, 1874) (article '' Poritia phalena'' as per LepIndex) Subfamily Miletinae Genus ''Miletus'' – brownies * Bigg's brownie, '' Miletus biggsii'' ( Distant, 1884) * Common brownie, '' Miletus boisduvali'' Moore, 1857 * Common brownie, '' Miletus chinensis'' C. Felder, 1862 * Long's brownie, '' Miletus longeana'' ( de Nicéville, 1898) * Great bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Poritia Phama
''Poritia phama'' is a small butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (1869 – 21 June 1922) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lycaenidae and to a lesser extent Hesperiidae. He is not to be confused with his father, the English entomologist Herbert Druce (1846– ... in 1895. Subspecies *'' P. p. phama'' Borneo, Sumatra, Java *''P. p. geta'' Fawcett, 1897 Pakistan, Assam - Myanmar, Thailand *''P. p. courvoisieri'' Fruhstorfer, 1917 East Java *''P. p. regia'' Evans, 1921 Langkawi Island, South Thailand *''P. p. rajata'' Corbet, 1940 *''P. p. palawana'' Osada, 1994 Philippines, Palawan, Olanguan References Poritia Fauna of Pakistan Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1895 {{Poritiinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allotinus Horsfieldii
''Allotinus horsfieldi'', the common darkie, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Range It is found in Assam in India to Myanmar. Also Chittagong Hill Tracts. As per Savela the butterfly occurs from Thailand, Langkawi, Malay Peninsula, Tioman, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Bangka, Batu, Celebes and Sundaland. Status Common. Description A small butterfly, 38–44 mm in wingspan. The upper forewing in both sexes has a pale elongated oval discal patch. This may be larger and more diffuse in females. The butterflies are speckled below. Museum diagnosis Male upperside: brown. Forewing: an elongate oval pale patch beyond apex of cell. Hindwing: uniform, immaculate. Underside: dull white. Both forewings and hindwings with numerous short, slender, transverse strigae and minute dots, brown. Forewing: dorsal area near base below the cell but not further outwards more or less free of spots and strigae; a narrow brown transverse spot a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allotinus Drumila
''Allotinus drumila'', the crenulate darkie, is a small butterfly found in India (Assam, Sikkim), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan (China) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Description Male upperside: earthy brown. Forewing: costa at base and a broad outward discal streak from beyond apex of cell curved downwards towards but not reaching the tornal angle, dull white, diffuse at the edges; apex and termen broadly very dark blackish-brown. Hindwing: costal margin above the subcostal vein and in a line with it up to the termen similarly very dark blackish-brown, the rest of the brown colour uniform without any white. Underside, forewing: dull pale brown, costal margin and disc mottled with small catenulated spots of dark brown; cell with three short transverse bars of dark brown, the middle bar extended below the cell but not reaching the dorsum; a white curved discal band as on the upperside, but obscure, diffuse and ill-defined, merged with a pale area along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Cramer
Pieter Cramer (21 May 1721 (baptized) – 28 September 1776), was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, remembered as an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing, and a member of ''Concordia et Libertate'', based in Amsterdam. This literary and patriotic society, where Cramer gave lectures on minerals, commissioned and/or financed the publishing of his book ''De uitlandsche Kapellen'', on foreign (exotic) butterflies, occurring in three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America. Cramer assembled an extensive natural history collection that included seashells, petrifications, fossils and insects of all orders. Many were colourful butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), collected in countries where the Dutch had colonial or trading links, such as Surinam, Ceylon, Sierra Leone and the Dutch East Indies. Cramer decided to get a permanent record of his collection and so engaged the painter Gerrit Wartenaar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miletus Symethus
''Miletus symethus'', the great brownie, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenidae, lycaenids or blues family. The species was Species description, first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. Range It is found in the Naga Hills in India, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Malaya, Sumatra and the Philippines. Status The species is considered very rare. Description A small butterfly, 40 to 50 mm in wingspan, it is the largest of the genus. The upper forewing in both sexes has a broad white discal band which extends right up to dorsum, the upper edge of which is sharply angled at vein 3. The upper hindwing has a pale discal streak. Technical description The male has the upperside of wings dusky brownish black. The ground colour of the forewings darker, almost pure black in fresh specimens, on the apical third of the wing; a short streak in the middle of interspace 1, a more outwardly produced similar streak in interspace 2, basal halves of interspaces 3 and 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel De Nicéville
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka. He also studied the mantids of the Oriental region. Biography Born in a noble Huguenot family, his father was a physician. He was educated at St. John's College at Hurstpierpoint near Brighton.Rao, BR Subba (1998) ''History of entomology in India''. Institution of Agricultural Technologist, Bangalore. Leaving England for India in 1870, de Nicéville became a clerk in a government office (Calcutta Small Cause Court) but from at least 1881, devoted all of his spare time to entomology. He worked with most 'Indian' entomologists of the day but especially with Henry John Elwes, Taylor, Wood–Mason, Martin and Marshall. At this time, he made several trips to Sikkim. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miletus Longeana
''Miletus chinensis longeana'', or Long's brownie,. Retrieved 21 April 2018. is a small but striking subspecies of butterfly found in India and Myanmar that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Range It ranges from Manipur in India to Myanmar. Status This subspecies is reported as not being rare by William Harry Evans and as rare as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth (15 August 1906 – 16 April 1963 Leysin, Switzerland) was an English schoolteacher and amateur naturalist who wrote one of the first field guides to the butterflies of the Indian region. He was also involved in censuses .... Description A small butterfly, 30 to 38 mm in wingspan. The upper forewing in both sexes has a prominent curved white discal band; the lower spots composing it are separate and sometimes coalesced in female. The apical area of the upper forewing is darker than the basal area. The dry-season form of the butterfly is white above except for the apex and a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miletus Chinensis
''Miletus chinensis'', the common brownie, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth descr ... ( Indomalayan realm) Subspecies * ''M. c. chinensis'' (Yunnan to south-eastern China and Hainan) * ''M. c. assamensis'' (Doherty, 1891) (Kumaon to Assam and Sikkim) * ''M. c. learchus'' C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 (Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, northern Malaya) * '' M. c. longeana'' (de Nicéville, 1898) (Manipur, Burma) — Long's brownie References Butterflies described in 1862 Miletus (butterfly) {{Miletinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miletus Boisduvali
''Miletus boisduvali'', the common brownie,. Retrieved 21 April 2018. is a small but striking butterfly found in India and Myanmar, ser no H5.3, pg 211. that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Range It ranges from Sikkim to Assam in India to Myanmar. Status The species is not considered rare. Description A small butterfly, 32 to 38 mm in wingspan. The upper forewing in both sexes has an obscure narrow curved white discal band, the lower spots composing it are well separated. In males, this band may be reduced to a small whitish patch at base 4. In females there will always be a dark streak present in the cell while the band may coalesce and extend to base. The body of the male is elongated and slender and protrudes beyond the wing. The underside is white with fine brown striation. Description based on Bingham Male upperside: brown; apical half of forewing very dark. Forewing with a short, curved, discal white fascia, sometimes obsolescent and vary variable in len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distant Rao, B.R. Subba (1998) ''History of Entomology in India''. Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore. and his wife, Sarah Ann Distant (née Berry). Following his father's death in 1867, a trip to the Malay Peninsula to visit his older brother, also named Alexander and a ship's captain, aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of ''Rhopalocera Malayana'' (1882–1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. (He considered 5 August 1867 as the most eventful day in his life). Career Much of Distant's early life was spent working in a London tannery, and while employed there he made two long visits to the Transvaal. The first resulted in the publication of ''A Naturalist in the Transvaal'' (1892). The second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miletus Biggsii
''Miletus biggsii'', the Bigg's brownie,. Retrieved 21 April 2018. is a small butterfly found in India and Myanmar that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Range It is found in Kodagu (Coorg) in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Langkawi, Malaya, Tioman, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Belitung and Weh. Status It is very rare in Kodagu (a single record) and rare in Myanmar as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth. Description A small butterfly, 32 to 38 mm in wingspan. The upper forewing in both sexes has a broad white discal band which is straight, coalesced and comprises at least one-fourth of the wing. Taxonomy The butterfly was earlier known as '' Gerydus biggsii'' Distant. Eliot provisionally placed the single specimen from Kodagu Kodagu (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State. It occupies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
