Miletus chinensis longeana
Subspecies of butterfly
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Miletus chinensis longeana, or Long's brownie,[1][2] is a small subspecies of butterfly found in India and Myanmar[3][4] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
| Miletus chinensis longeana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Miletus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | M. c. longeana |
| Trinomial name | |
| Miletus chinensis longeana (de Nicéville, 1898) | |
Range
Status
This subspecies is reported as not being rare by William Harry Evans[3] and as rare as per Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth.[4]
Description
A 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]
Taxonomy
The 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.