| Miletus chinensis longeana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Miletus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | M. c. longeana |
| Trinomial name | |
| Miletus chinensis longeana (de Nicéville, 1898) | |
Miletus chinensis longeana, or Long's brownie, [1] [2] is a small subspecies of butterfly found in India and Myanmar [3] [4] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
This subspecies is reported as not being rare by William Harry Evans [3] and as rare as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth. [4]
A small butterfly, 30 to 38 mm in wingspan. The upper forewing in both sexes has a prominent curved white discal band; the lower spots composing it are separate and sometimes coalesced in female. The apical area of the upper forewing is darker than the basal area. The dry-season form of the butterfly is white above except for the apex and a discal brown patch of the forewing and the costa on the hindwing. [4]
The butterfly was earlier known as Gerydus longeana de Nicéville. [3] It was formerly treated as a species, but is now regarded as a subspecies of Miletus chinensis .
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