Lamprolenis

Lamprolenis
Lamprolenis nitida' in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Subfamily:
Satyrinae
Tribe:
Satyrini
Genus:
Lamprolenis

Godman & Salvin, 1880
Species:
L. nitida
Binomial name
Lamprolenis nitida
Godman & Salvin, 1880

Lamprolenis is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Its one species is Lamprolenis nitida.[1]

Description

The figure ( see plate right c ) shows the characteristic of the species, a wonderful green reflection, which gradually changes distad into a more intensive and. brilliant golden bronze-colour, a decoration with which no other Indo-Australian Satyrid. can even distantly compare. The very rare female is essentially larger, paler brown, the hindwing shows only slight traces of the metallic sheen, but is instead ornamented with a very large black ocellus with brown-yellow border, which is always well developed on the forewing also. In the males as n the example figured, the anal ocellus on the upperside of the hindwing s commonly absent. According to Hagen the species flies in the woods at Astrolabe Bay in March. I Hans Fruhstorfer ] myself have received it from the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafe.[2]

References

Wikispecies has information related to Lamprolenis.
  1. ^ "Lamprolenis Godman & Salvin, 1880" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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