''Aslauga'' is a genus of
butterflies in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterf ...
. They are
associated with other insects and found only in the
Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in ''
A. pandora''. They are forest butterflies of the
Congolian forests
The Congolian rainforests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests which extend across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa. They are the only major rainforests which absorb more carbon than they ...
and
Lower Guinean forests The Lower Guinean forests is region of coastal tropical moist broadleaf forest in West Africa, extending along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Guinea from eastern Benin through Nigeria and Cameroon.
The Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna and dry fo ...
.
Original description by
William Forsell Kirby
William Forsell Kirby (14 January 1844 – 20 November 1912) was an English entomologist and folklorist.
Life
He was born in Leicester. He was the eldest son of Samuel Kirby, who was a banker. He was educated privately, and became interested ...
:
"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex".
[Kirby,W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith '']Annals and Magazine of Natural History
The ''Journal of Natural History'' is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology. The journal was established in 1841 under the name ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'') an ...
'' (6) 6 (33): 261-274
Species
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Aslauga abri''
Collins & Libert, 1997
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Aslauga atrophifurca''
Cottrell, 1981
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Aslauga aura''
Druce, 1913
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Aslauga australis''
Cottrell, 1981
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Aslauga bella''
Bethune-Baker, 1913
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Aslauga bitjensis''
Bethune-Baker, 1925
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Aslauga bouyeri''
Libert, 1994
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Aslauga camerunica''
Stempffer, 1969
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Aslauga confusa''
Libert, 1994
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Aslauga ernesti''
(Karsch, 1895)
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Aslauga febe''
(Libert, 1994)
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Aslauga guineensis''
Collins & Libert, 1997
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Aslauga imitans''
Libert, 1994
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Aslauga kallimoides''
Schultze, 1912
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Aslauga karamoja''
(Libert, 1994)
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Aslauga katangana''
(Romieux, 1937)
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Aslauga lamborni''
Bethune-Baker, 1914
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Aslauga latifurca''
Cottrell, 1981
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Aslauga marginalis''
Kirby, 1890
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Aslauga marshalli''
Butler, 1898
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Aslauga modesta''
Schultze, 1923
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Aslauga orientalis''
Cottrell, 1981
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Aslauga pandora''
Druce, 1913
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Aslauga prouvosti''
Libert & Bouyer, 1997
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Aslauga purpurascens''
Holland, 1890
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Aslauga satyroides''
Libert, 1994
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Aslauga tanga''
Libert & Collins, 1997
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Aslauga vininga''
(Hewitson, 1875)
References
Libert, M. 1994. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains: Mise au point sur le genre ''Aslauga'' Kirby. ''Lambillionea'', 94 (3) : 411–434.
External links
''Aslauga''at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
Seitz A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64Images
at BOLD
Fauna Africains Libert
Miletinae
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by William Forsell Kirby
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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