| Aslauga | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Miletinae |
| Tribe: | Liphyrini |
| Genus: | Aslauga Kirby, 1890 |
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Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropic ecozone. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora . [1] They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.
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Original description by William Forsell Kirby:
"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex". [2]
