Aslauga

Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Aslauga

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Scientific classification
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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