''Miletus chinensis longeana'', or Long's brownie,
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subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

found in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Range

It ranges from

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

Status

This subspecies is reported as not being rare by William Harry Evans and as rare as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth.

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 discal brown patch of the forewing and the costa on the hindwing.

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as '' Gerydus longeana'' de Nicéville. It was formerly treated as a species, but is now regarded as a subspecies of ''

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: , ''geograp ...

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References

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