- Kallima albofasciata
Taxobox | name = Andaman Oakleaf
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia =Nymphalinae
genus = "Kallima "
species = "K. albofasciata"
binomial = "Kallima albofasciata"
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Andaman Islands .Description
Males and females upperside blue. Fore wing with a broad pure while obliquely-placed discal sinuous band, its inner margin defined in black along the discocellulars and base of interspace 3, with a round black hyaline-centred spot in interspace 2; the width of this discal band decreases posteriorly ; measured on the costal margin its outer edge is at a distance greater than half the length of the wing from base ; apical area beyond discal band black with a preapical white spot, larger in the female than in the male - Hind wing with the costal margin and apex broadly, and the abdominal fold pale earthy brown. Fore and hind wings with the usual sub-terminal dark zigzag line. Underside as in "
Kallima inachus ". Antennae black; head, thorax and abdomen dark indigo-blue: beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen earthy brown. [Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol 1]Expanse 96-112 mm.
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