Miletus longeana

Long's Brownie
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Miletus
Species:	M. longeana
Binomial name
Miletus longeana (de Nicéville, 1898)

The Long's Brownie (Miletus longeana)^[1][2] is a small but striking butterfly found in India and Myanmar^[3][4] that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Range

It ranges from Manipur in India to Myanmar^[3][4].

Status

Reported as Not Rare by Evans^[3]. Rare as per Wynter-Blyth^[4].

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^[4].

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as Gerydus longeana de Nicéville^[3].

Cited references

1. ^ Page on Marrku Savela's site for genus Miletus (Lycaenidae).
2. ^ Card for species longeana in LepIndex. Accessed 05 December 2006.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H5.4, pg 211.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, pg 254.

References

• Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 05 December 2006].
• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
• Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

References

Print

• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 9 figs, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

Online

• Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [2] (accessed 26 September 2007).
• Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [3] (accessed 26 September 2007)

See also

• Lycaenidae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)