Polyommatus astrarche

Polyommatus astrarche

Taxobox
name = Orange-bordered Argus



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image_caption ="Polyommatus astrarche"Male left, underside middle, female right.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Polyommatus "
species = "P. astrarche"
binomial = "Polyommatus astrarche"
binomial_authority = Bergsträsser,1779
The Orange-bordered Argus( "Polyommatus astrarche") is a species of "lycaenid" butterfly found in many parts of the Palearctic region.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"Upperside is brown with a silky sheen in certain lights. Fore wing has a black spot on the discocellulars. Hind wing has an anticiliary black line. Fore and hind wings have a subterminal, transverse, slightly curved series of black spots, inwardly bordered by a transverse series of orange-red lunules; cilia white, spotted inwardly at the terminations of the veins with black. Underside : ground-colour a warm dark grey. Fore wing has a spot on the discocellulars, a transverse, discal, bisinuate series of seven spots, a transverse, subterminal, slightly curved series of six spots and an anticiliary line, black; the discocellular spot and the discal spots encircled with white, the subterminal spots inwardly bordered by larger orange-red spots, which in turn are inwardly margined narrowly with black, the anterior ones with specks of white again on their inner sides; outwardly the spots of the subterminal series are conspicuously bordered with white; cilia grey. Hindwing has a transverse, subbasal series of four spots, followed by a spot in middle of interspace 7, another at the base of interspace 6, a speck on the discocellulars, and an outwardly oblique, somewhat sinuate posterior, discal series of five spots, black, all enclosed with white which colour forms a comparatively large postdiscal patch; beyond is a strongly curved series of nine orange-red larger spots succeeded by a subterminal similarly curved series of seven black spots on a white ground, and an anticiliary black line; the tornal three of the orange-red series of spots are coalescent; cilia white, dusky grey at the terminations of the veins. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, the shafts of the antenna ringed with white; beneath: the club of the antennae, the palpi, thorax and abdomen white, the palpi with some stiff black hairs.Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]

Distribution

The Palearctic Region (except the Polar area). The Himalayas: Chitral, Kashmir, Western Himalayas, Baluchistan.

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