Prosotas - Prosotas Nora, Prosotas Aluta, Prosotas Noreia, Prosotas Dubiosa, Prosotas Bhutea, Prosotas Dilata, Prosotas Pia, Prosotas Lutea (Paperback)

Chapters: Prosotas Nora, Prosotas Aluta, Prosotas Noreia, Prosotas Dubiosa, Prosotas Bhutea, Prosotas Dilata, Prosotas Pia, Prosotas Lutea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. 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 Common Lineblue Prosotas nora is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in Asia. See glossary of Lepidopteran terms for terminology used at Ananthagiri Hills, in Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh, India.Male Upperside: purplish-brown or purplish with a dark tint, some specimens brown with, a very slight purplish sheen seen only in certain lights. Fore and hind wings: nearly uniform, both with slender black anticiliary lines, the hind wing in addition with the costal and dorsal margins paler; in most specimens with a sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2, sometimes seen only by transparency from the underside; tail black tipped with white. Underside: brown, hoary, brownish or pale dull brown. Forewing: a subbasal pair of transverse white strigae, a shorter pair along the discocellulars and a discal pair; these strigae all narrowly edged on the inner sides of each pair with fuscous which gives the appearance of transverse bands somewhat darker than the ground-colour; the subbasal pair extend from vein 1 to vein 12, the discocellular pair from upper to lower apex of cell and the discal pair are very irregular and dislocated at each vein, the whole having the appearance of a dark sinuous band; terminal markings often very faint and ill-defined or again fairly prominent and consisting of a double subterminal series of transversely linear, sometimes lunular, dark spots, with edgings paler than the ground-colour; lastly, an anticiliary dark line. Hind wing: with transverse pairs of white, inwardly fuscous-edged strigae similar to those on the fore wing, but even more irr...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8332549