请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Calinaga aborica
释义

  1. Description

  2. References

{{Italic title}}{{Taxobox
| name = Dark freak
| image =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Nymphalidae
| genus = Calinaga
| species = C. aborica
| binomial = Calinaga aborica
| binomial_authority = Tytler, 1915
}}

Calinaga aborica, the dark freak or Abor freak, is a species of butterfly in the Calinaginae subfamily that is found in India and the Abor Hills of northern Burma.

Description

Male. Upperside black with pale cream coloured markings. Forewing: two narrow pale streaks, irrorated with fuliginous scales, occupying the basal half of the cell and joined together towards the base; the lower streak the longer of the two; two short contiguous similarly coloured streaks, places one above the other, towards the end of the cell, between which and the bases of veins 3 and 5 are two ore very indistinct pale spots; a broad pale streak, bifurcated at its outer half, in interspaces 1, commencing at the base and extending well beyond the base of vein 2, the lower portion the longer; a long narrow pale streak at base of interspace 4; a discal row of narrow pale streaks in interspaces 2-6; a subterminal row of pale cream spots in interspaces 1-6, interspace 1 having two spots; and lastly a terminal row of very indistinct spots in interspace 1-4.

Hindwing: a broad pale streak in cell, commencing at the base and not quite reaching the end, the outer two-thirds bifurcated and dusted with fuliginous scales, the upper portion a little longer than the lower; two pale streaks dusted with fuliginous scales at base of interspaces 4 and 5; a discal row of pale spots in interspaces 1-3 and 5-7, the first very small and indistinct, those in interspaces 5 and 6 long and linear; a subterminal row of large pale spots in interspaces 1-6; basal half of interspaces 1-b and 1-a pale cream; dorsal half of the wing densely covered with long grey hairs. Underside: pale markings as above but much broader and distinct; the subterminal row of pale spots on hindwing continued into interspace 1-b.

Body above black, sides of body at junction of the forewings red; underneath black, red near base of hindwings. Antennae black; eyes brown. Wingspan of the male {{convert|3.5|-|3.62|in|mm}}

[1]

This species is found in the Arunachal Pradesh, India.[2]

References

1. ^Tytler, 1915 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23 (3): 511
2. ^{{cite journal | last1 = Sondhi | first1 = S. | last2 = Karmakar | first2 = T. | last3 = Sondhi | first3 = Y. | last4 = Jhaveri | first4 = R. | last5 = Kunte | first5 = K. | year = 2016 | title = Re-discovery of Calinaga aborica Tytler, 1915 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India | url = | journal = Journal of Threatened Taxa | volume = 8 | issue = 3| pages = 8618–8622 | doi = 10.11609/jott.2354.8.3.8618-8622 }}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q13448822}}

3 : Calinaginae|Butterflies of India|Butterflies described in 1915

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/13 7:46:04