Mantoides

Mantoides
Mantoides gama gama from Malaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Iolaini
Genus:	Mantoides H. H. Druce, 1896
Species:	M. gama
Binomial name
Mantoides gama (Distant, 1886) [1]

Mantoides is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1896. Its only species, Mantoides gama, the Distant's Imperial, was first described by William Lucas Distant in 1886. ^[2] It is found in the Indomalayan realm. Whilst the male above resembles yet Neocheritra amrita ,, though it has a whiter anal portion of the hindwing, the female above is very much like a Cheritra freja -female, beneath similarly coloured to cloella Weym., from Nias, but the forewing is grey in the basal portion, the rusty-yellow colour is more confined to the apical half, gama is described from Penang, but it occurs also in Sumatra and Borneo. ^[3]

References

1. Distant, W. L., 1882-1886. Rhopalocera Malayana. 16 + 481 pp., 41 pls. London.
2. Savela, Markku (November 17, 2012). "Mantoides Druce, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .