- Logania distanti
Taxobox
name = Dark Mottle
image_width =230px
image_caption =Museum specimen from Malaya
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
superfamilia =Papilionoidea
familia =Lycaenidae
genus = "Logania"
species = "L. distanti"
binomial = "Logania distanti"
binomial_authority = Semper, 1889
synonyms = "Logania massalia"Doherty , 1891The Dark Mottle ("Logania distanti") [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/miletinae/logania/index.html Page on Marrku Savela's site for genus Logania (Lycaenidae).] ] is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
Description
Male
Upperside dark brown. Fore wing: a medial dull whitish spot at base of interspace 3 extended upwards on to vein 4 and below into interspace 2. Hind wing; uniform, immaculate. Underside: very pale dull brown, with darker brown mottlings and striae, that on the fore wing are absent on a broad streak from base outwards along the basal half of the dorsum, this area pale brown without markings; a dark obscure spot at apex of cell and an incomplete similarly obscure dark transverse discal band. On the hind wing the mottlings coalesce and form three or four very ill-defined, obscure, transverse, somewhat broad bands. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Sex-mark: the base of vein 4 swollen and bare of scales.
Female
"Above black, a round dull white discal area on the fore wing from just above the upper median (vein 4) almost to the submedian vein (vein 1). Below irregularly speckled and variegated; fore wing with the costal and apical parts ochreous brown, the rest blackish. Hind wing also tinged with ochreous, a submarginal dark area, and obscure dark transverse bands. Hind wing not angled, the margin entire." (Doherty quoted in Bingham)Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]
Range
Assam - Burma, Malaya, Borneo?, Thailand, Laos, Sumatra.
Taxonomy
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