Horaga
| Horaga | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Horaga (Moore, 1881). |
Horaga is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae which Eliot,[1] 1973, places in the tribe Horagini of the Sub-Family Theclinae. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark post-discal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of H. araotina is aberrant.[2]
Range
The genus occurs in the Oriental Region it is distributed from Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea.
Included Taxa
- Horaga araotina
- Horaga onyx
- Horaga syrinx
- Horaga albimacula
- Horaga chalcedonyx
- Horaga amethystus
- Horaga selina
- Horaga moulmeina
- Horaga viola
Cited references
- ↑ Eliot, J. N. 1973. The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement Bull. BMNH 28/6.
- ↑ Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edition 1991.