Poritia sumatrae

Poritia sumatrae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Poritia
Species:	P. sumatrae
Binomial name
Poritia sumatrae (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865) [1]
Synonyms
Pseudodipsas sumatraeC. & R. Felder, 1865

Poritia sumatrae is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. ^[2]

In English, the species goes by the common names Dark Grass Blue or Spotted Grass-blue. ^[3]

Subspecies

• Poritia sumatrae sumatrae (southern Burma, Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra)
• Poritia sumatrae miliaFruhstorfer, 1917 (Borneo)

Description

The male is above similar to elegans , but the apical black is extended over almost two thirds of the forewing. The female exhibits those portions of the wings, that are not blue, tinted deep rust-brown. The under surface is also rusty-yellow, traversed by red-brown, somewhat undulate, narrow arcuate bands. ^[4]

References

1. Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
3. "Dark Grass Blue - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
4. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

External links

• Poritia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms