Pycnophallium elna

Taxobox
name = Elbowed Pierrot

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = at Jairampur, Arunachal Pradesh, India
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Pycnophallium"
species = 'P. elna"
binomial = "Pycnophallium elna"
binomial_authority = (Hewitson 1876)
synonyms = Castalius elna Frühstorfer. Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India ]
Caleta elna Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/polyommatinae/caleta/index.html|Page on "Caleta" genus.] ] The Elbowed Pierrot ("Pycnophallium elna") [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=206362.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3delna%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3delna%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "elna" in LepIndex. Accessed 16 Jun 2007.] ] is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Description

:"For a key to the terms used see Lepidopteran glossary"Upperside: black; a medial broad oblique white band across both fore and hind wings broadening on the latter, on the fore wing it extends further towards the costa in the female than in the male and in most specimens, both male and female, it is slightly produced outwards above vein 3.

Underside: white with the following black markings:—a very broad band, broader than in any of the other forms, from base of hind wing produced obliquely across the fore wing as far as the discocellular veinlets, thence bent at right angles and extended to the costal margin; beyond this the discal markings on both fore and hind wings much as in "C. roxus", but the terminal markings narrow and more or less obsolescent, the apex of the fore wing however, is more broadly black, while the subterminal line of linear white spots on the same wing and the transverse subterminal series of black lunules on the hind wing are more or less obsolescent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black ; beneath : the shafts of the antennae speckled with white, the palpi, thorax and abdomen with a longi-tudiual medial white line, the sides of the abdomen barred with white.Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]

Taxonomy

The butterfly is also classified as "Caleta elna" Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/polyommatinae/caleta/index.html|Page on "Caleta" genus.] ] .

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Orissa, Sikkim to Assam Andamans Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India ] and onto Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, southern Yunnan. The butterfly extends southwards to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Karimata, Sumatra, Bangka and Palawan.

Cited references

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.
* Bingham, C. T. (1907) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2.
* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] .

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 "Caleta elna" (synonym) specimens from the Philippines.

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