Allotinus subviolaceus

Taxobox
name = Blue Darkie

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image_width =230px
image_caption =Museum specimen from Malaya
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Allotinus"
species = "A. subviolaceus"
binomial = "Allotinus subviolaceus"
binomial_authority = C. Felder 1865

The Blue Darkie ("Allotinus subviolaceus") [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=194195.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dsubviolaceus%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dsubviolaceus%26recLimit%3d30 Card for species "subviolaceus" in LepIndex. Accessed 23 March 2007] ] is a small butterfly found in South East Asia [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/miletinae/allotinus/index.html Page on Marrku Savela's site for genus Allotinus (Lycaenidae).] ] that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Range

Manipur, Myanmar, Borneo.

Description

Male upperside: brownish black. Fore wing: a medial area from base broadening outwards and extended to a little past the apex of cell, violaceous. This pale area varies very much in width and extent. In typical specimens from Java it is most restricted, but in those from the Malay Peninsula and Tenasserim ("alkamah", Distant) it occupies a much larger extent of the wing. Bind wing: a broad medial longitudinal violaceous streak not extended to the termen. Underside: pale brownish white with darker specks, spots and transverse stria. These markings on both fore and hind wings tend to coalesce and form broken transverse bands, the detached portions of each band placed more or less on i'chelou one with the other. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen pale brown; beneath: the palpi almost white, the thorax and abdomen paler than on the upperside.

Female Upperside : similar to that of the male, but the violaceous area on both fore and hind wings of much greater extent. Underside : also similar to that of the tf, but the ground-colour brighter with a tinge of yellow; the markings more ochraceous than brown, more conspicuous and prominent. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male but paler.Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]

Cited references

References

Print
*aut|Bingham, C. T. (1907) "Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burmah - Butterflies". Vol. II. (ed. 1) *aut|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.
*aut|Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) "Butterflies of the Indian Region", Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.Online
*aut|Beccaloni, G. W., aut|Scoble, M. J., aut|Robinson, G. S. & aut|Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex] (accessed 26 September 2007).
*aut|Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] (accessed 26 September 2007)

ee also

*Lycaenidae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

External links

* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/philframe.html Asahi] Correctly determined photos of "Allotinus subviolaceus"