Prosotas bhutea

Bhutya Lineblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Prosotas
Species:	P. bhutea
Binomial name
Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, 1884)
Synonyms
Nacaduba bhutea

The Bhutya Lineblue (Prosotas bhutea)^[1] is a species of blue butterfly found in Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim to Assam and extends to Karens and onto Yunnan.^[1]

Description

Male upperside: dull opaque purplish-brown. Fore and hind wings: slender dark anticiliary lines, otherwise uniform. Underside : ground-colour similar but very much paler. Fore wing: transverse pale-edged fascia) of a shade darker than the groundcolour as follows:—one across middle of cell from costa to median vein, another from costa over the discocellulars to lower apex of cell, a discal curved fascia from coata to vein 3, a spot below it shifted inwards ; a transverse subterminal series of broad lunules of the same shade followed by a line of spots and an anticiliary slender line. Hind wing: a subbasal band, a short band along the discocellulars and a highly irregular somewhat contorted discal band, all similar in colour to those on the fore wing; terminal markings as on the fore wing, but the lunules of the subterminal series inwardly somewhat hastate, the row of spots beyond them each inwardly conical; a prominent black subterminal spot in interspace 2, inwardly ochraceous, outwardly speckled with metallic blue scales. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull purplish brown; beneath : thorax somewhat grizzled.^[2]

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

Cited references

1. ^ ^{a b} Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Prosotas genus.
2. ^ Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2. Description of Nacaduba bhutea now Prosotas bhutea.

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 [accessed 14 October 2006].
• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.