词条 | Miletus chinensis longeana |
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| name = Long's brownie | image = GerydusLongeanaKnight.png | image_caption = | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Lepidoptera | familia = Lycaenidae | genus = Miletus | species = M. chinensis | subspecies = M. c. longeana | trinomial = Miletus chinensis longeana | trinomial_authority = (de Nicéville, 1898) }} Miletus chinensis longeana, Long's brownie,[1][2] is a small but striking butterfly found in India and Myanmar[3][4] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. RangeIt ranges from Manipur in India to Myanmar.[3][4] StatusThe species is reported as not being rare by William Harry Evans[3] and as rare as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth.[4] DescriptionA 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] TaxonomyThe 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. See also
Cited references1. ^Page on Markku Savela's site for genus Miletus (Lycaenidae). 2. ^{{LepIndex |id=194524}} Retrieved April 21, 2018. 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |page=211, ser no H5.4 }} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |authorlink=Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth |title=Butterflies of the Indian Region |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ |year=1957 |location=Bombay, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |isbn=978-8170192329 |page=254 }} ReferencesPrint
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