Aslauga

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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Aslauga
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Miletinae
Tribe: Liphyrini
Genus: Aslauga
Kirby, 1890
Synonyms
  • Egumbia Bethune-Baker, 1924
  • Paraslauga Bethune-Baker, 1925
  • Euliphyrodes Romieux, 1937

Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. 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.

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]

Species

  • Aslauga abri Collins & Libert, 1997
  • Aslauga atrophifurca Cottrell, 1981
  • Aslauga aura Druce, 1913
  • Aslauga australis Cottrell, 1981
  • Aslauga bella Bethune-Baker, 1913
  • Aslauga bitjensis Bethune-Baker, 1925
  • Aslauga bouyeri Libert, 1994
  • Aslauga camerunica Stempffer, 1969
  • Aslauga confusa Libert, 1994
  • Aslauga ernesti (Karsch, 1895)
  • Aslauga febe (Libert, 1994)
  • Aslauga guineensis Collins & Libert, 1997
  • Aslauga imitans Libert, 1994
  • Aslauga kallimoides Schultze, 1912
  • Aslauga karamoja (Libert, 1994)
  • Aslauga katangana (Romieux, 1937)
  • Aslauga lamborni Bethune-Baker, 1914
  • Aslauga latifurca Cottrell, 1981
  • Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890
  • Aslauga marshalli Butler, 1898
  • Aslauga modesta Schultze, 1923
  • Aslauga orientalis Cottrell, 1981
  • Aslauga pandora Druce, 1913
  • Aslauga prouvosti Libert & Bouyer, 1997
  • Aslauga purpurascens Holland, 1890
  • Aslauga satyroides Libert, 1994
  • Aslauga tanga Libert & Collins, 1997
  • Aslauga vininga (Hewitson, 1875)

References

  1. "Aslauga". BOLD. http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=399214. 
  2. Kirby,W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 6 (33): 261-274

Libert, M. 1994. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains: Mise au point sur le genre Aslauga Kirby. Lambillionea, 94 (3) : 411–434.

External links

  • Aslauga at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  • Seitz A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64
  • Images at BOLD
  • Fauna Africains Libert

Wikidata ☰ Q1347821 entry




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