Logania marmorata

Logania marmorata, the pale mottle, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1884. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.An insignificant, though widely distributed species. Its range extends from the Philippines in the north and from Tenasserim through the whole of Macromalayana.The whole basal part of the forewing is whitish, or bluish-grey, according to the habitat, the apical border being broad black. In the name-type and a race of North Borneo also the hindwing is brightened up by bluish-grey, the other insular marmorata. forms exhibit black hindwings. — marmorata Moore (141 f), the lightest off-branch of the total species. Forewing of the male almost white, with a delicate violet tint, while in the female lying before me [Fruhstorfer] from Singapore, it is dull chalk-coloured. Hindwing with a pale bluish-grey basal zone comprising yet the middle zone. Under surface grey with whitish diffuse spots, submarginal accumulations of blackish scales and indistinct brown maculae of the hindwings being preponderately speckled with a silvery grey^[2]

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

Family:Lycaenidae

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Logania marmorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Logania
Species:	L. marmorata
Binomial name
Logania marmorata Moore, 1884[1]
Synonyms
Logania massalia damis Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania obscura Distant & Pryer, 1887 (preocc. Röber, 1886) Logania massalia nada Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania marmorata stenosa Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania marmorata cineraria Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania massalia sora Fruhstorfer, 1914 Miletus lahomius Kheil, 1884 Logania massalia munichya Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania marmorata javanica Fruhstorfer, 1914 Logania massalia glypha Fruhstorfer, 1914 Allotinus (Logania) distanti Staudinger, 1889 (preocc. Semper, 1889)

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