Lamprolenis
| Lamprolenis | |
|---|---|
| Lamprolenis nitida' in Seitz | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subtribe: | Hypocystina |
| Genus: | Lamprolenis Godman & Salvin, 1880 |
| Species: | L. nitida
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| Binomial name | |
| Lamprolenis nitida Godman & Salvin, 1880
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Lamprolenis is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Its one species is Lamprolenis nitida.[1]
Description
The figure (see plate right c) shows the characteristic of the species, a wonderful green reflection, which gradually changes distad into a more intensive and. brilliant golden bronze-colour, a decoration with which no other Indo-Australian Satyrid. can even distantly compare. The very rare female is essentially larger, paler brown, the hindwing shows only slight traces of the metallic sheen, but is instead ornamented with a very large black ocellus with brown-yellow border, which is always well developed on the forewing also. In the males as n the example figured, the anal ocellus on the upperside of the hindwing s commonly absent. According to Hagen the species flies in the woods at Astrolabe Bay in March. I Hans Fruhstorfer ] myself have received it from the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafe.[2]
References
- ^ "Lamprolenis Godman & Salvin, 1880" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.