Logania distanti

Dark mottle
	Specimen from Malaya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Logania
Species:	L. distanti
Binomial name
	Logania distanti; Semper, 1889
Synonyms
	Logania massalia Doherty, 1891;

Logania distanti, the dark mottle,^[1] is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues (family Lycaenidae). It was first described by Georg Semper in 1889.

Description

Male

Upperside dark brown. Forewing: a medial dull whitish spot at base of interspace 3 extended upwards on to vein 4 and below into interspace 2. Hindwing; uniform, immaculate. Underside: very pale dull brown, with darker brown mottlings and striae, that on the forewing are absent on a broad streak from base outwards along the basal half of the dorsum, this area pale brown without markings; a dark obscure spot at apex of cell and an incomplete similarly obscure dark transverse discal band. On the hindwing the mottlings coalesce and form three or four very ill-defined, obscure, transverse, somewhat broad bands. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Sex-mark: the base of vein 4 swollen and bare of scales.

Female

"Above black, a round dull white discal area on the forewing from just above the upper median (vein 4) almost to the submedian vein (vein 1). Below irregularly speckled and variegated; forewing with the costal and apical parts ochreous brown, the rest blackish. Hindwing also tinged with ochreous, a submarginal dark area, and obscure dark transverse bands. Hindwing not angled, the margin entire." (Doherty quoted in Bingham)^[2]

Range

Assam - Myanmar, Malaya, Borneo?, Thailand, Laos, Sumatra.^[1]

Taxonomy

The butterfly is also referred to as Logania massalia Doherty, 1891.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Savela, Markku. "Logania distanti Semper, 1889". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
^ Bingham, C. T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Logania massalia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

External links

Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001). "Genus Logania". A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001 – via Internet Archive. With images.

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[Funet.fi-1] Savela, Markku. "Logania distanti Semper, 1889". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

[Bingham-2] Bingham, C. T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.

[LepIndex_massalia-3] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Logania massalia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

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