Prosotas noreia
species of insect
Prosotas noreia, the white-tipped lineblue, is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in South Asia and Java.
Description
Race hampsoni
Male upperside pale brown flushed with shining purple. Forewings and hindwings: the purple gloss not extended to the dorsum of the hindwing nor to the costal and terminal margins of either wing, all of which are narrowly edged with the pale brown of the ground colour, beyond which along the termen of both wings are slender anteciliary lines. Cilia pale, their bases brown. Underside: dull brown. Forewing: two short slightly crenulate (scalloped) lines transversely across the middle of cell and two similar lines along the discocellulars, followed by a transverse, irregular, catenulated (chain-like), discal band slightly darker than the ground colour and margined inwardly and outwardly by slender white lines; terminal markings: a subterminal line of spots similarly slightly darker than the ground colour and margined with white lines; basal posterior half of wing below cell immaculate; finally, an anteciliary dark brown line. Hindwing: the following transverse, somewhat crenulate, slender white lines, between each pair of which the ground colour is slightly darker: an oblique pair at base, a pair along the discocellulars and a very irregular sinuous discal pair, the last dislocated at vein 6, the posterior portion curved and shifted outwards; these are followed by a subterminal inner and outer series of arrow-shaped lunules and an anteciliary dark line, this last with a very slender inner whitish edging; finally, a minute block spot near the termen in interspace 1a; another similar spot in interspace 1 and a very much larger round black spot in interspace 2; all these spots touched with white on the inner side. Antenna black, the shafts speckled with white; head, thorax and abdomen brown slightly purplish on the thorax and abdomen; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen dusky brownish white.
Sri Lankan race
"A geographical form of Prosotas nora, Felder, but with the external margin less convex in the fore wing. Upperside: both wings brownish fuscous.
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