Logania marmorata

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Logania marmorata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Logania
Species:
L. marmorata
Binomial name
Logania marmorata
Moore, 1884 [1]
Synonyms
  • Logania massalia damisFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania obscuraDistant & Pryer, 1887 (preocc. Röber, 1886)
  • Logania massalia nadaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania marmorata stenosaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania marmorata cinerariaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania massalia soraFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Miletus lahomiusKheil, 1884
  • Logania massalia munichyaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania marmorata javanicaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Logania massalia glyphaFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Allotinus (Logania) distantiStaudinger, 1889 (preocc. Semper, 1889)

Logania marmorata, the pale mottle, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1884. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.An insignificant, though widely distributed species. Its range extends from the Philippines in the north and from Tenasserim through the whole of Macromalayana.The whole basal part of the forewing is whitish, or bluish-grey, according to the habitat, the apical border being broad black. In the name-type and a race of North Borneo also the hindwing is brightened up by bluish-grey, the other insular marmorata. forms exhibit black hindwings. — marmorata Moore (141 f), the lightest off-branch of the total species. Forewing of the male almost white, with a delicate violet tint, while in the female lying before me [Fruhstorfer] from Singapore, it is dull chalk-coloured. Hindwing with a pale bluish-grey basal zone comprising yet the middle zone. Under surface grey with whitish diffuse spots, submarginal accumulations of blackish scales and indistinct brown maculae of the hindwings being preponderately speckled with a silvery grey [2]

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References

  1. Moore, F., 1884. Descriptions of some new Asiatic diurnal lepidoptera; chiefly from Specimens contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 53(2): 16–52
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .