''Logania marmorata'', the pale mottle, is a
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 ...
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 butterfl ...
. It was described by
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.
It has been said that Mo ...
in 1884. It is found in the
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
.
[ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.]
Subspecies
* ''Logania marmorata marmorata'' (southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam)
* ''Logania marmorata damis''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Thailand, Langkawi, Malay Peninsula, Singapore)
* ''Logania marmorata hilaeira''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Sumatra, Borneo)
* ''Logania marmorata lahomius''
(Kheil, 1884) (Nias)
* ''Logania marmorata diehli''
Eliot, 1986 (Simalur)
* ''Logania marmorata munichya''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (western Java)
* ''Logania marmorata javanica''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (eastern Java, Sumbawa, Flores)
* ''Logania marmorata palawana''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Palawan, Balabac, Luzon, Marinduque)
* ''Logania marmorata samosata''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Cebu, Mindoro)
* ''Logania marmorata faustina''
Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Mindanao, Leyte, Samar, Sulu, Tawi Tawi)
References
External links
''Logania''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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Logania (butterfly)
Butterflies described in 1884