Azanus - Azanus Jesous, Azanus Ubaldus, Azanus Uranus, Azanus Urios, Azanus Natalensis (Paperback)

Chapters: Azanus Jesous, Azanus Ubaldus, Azanus Uranus, Azanus Urios, Azanus Natalensis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 19. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The African Babul Blue (Azanus jesous) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. mating in Hyderabad, India.Male upperside a paler and much brighter purple than in A. ubaldus, the dark blue tint at the base of the wings more pronounced. Fore wing: without the clothing of specialized hair-like scales so conspicuous in ubaldus. Hind wing: with the dark tornal spots very obscure. Fore and hind wings: with only slender dark anticiliary lines, but no regular brown edging. Underside: dull pale grey. Fore wing: costal margin brown, a black white-encircled spot in cell, a dark chestnut-brown streak between vein 12 and subcostal vein; similarly-coloured but somewhat paler transverse bars cross the upper discal area of the wing as follows: one on the discocellulars and three beyond, each bar edged internally and externally with white; below this two elongate brownish white-edged spots placed en echelon and beyond a slender, unbroken, transverse, postdiscal brown line; a transverse subterminal series of black spots, each surrounded with white, and a slender anticiliary dark line. In most specimens there is also a dusky spot below the cell near the base of the wing. in Kullu Distt. of Himachal Pradesh, India.Hind wing: an outwardly oblique short streak from base of cell, a spot below it, a transverse subbasal series of four spots and a complete series of subterminal spots in interspaces 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7, jet-black, each spot surrounded with white; the sub-terminal spot in interspace 3, a terminal small spot in interspace 7, an outwardly-oblique discal line of six elongate spots, the anterior ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5528406