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Dingy Lineblue
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Dingy Lineblue

Petrelaea dana

Petrelaea dana, the dingy lineblue, is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in Indomalayan realm.

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Description

Male upperside: from pale violet to dark bluish purple. Forewings and hindwings: comparatively broad, anteciliary brown lines widened slightly at apex of forewing. Hindwing: in addition costal and dorsal margins narrowly paler and duller in colour; termen not furnished with a tail at apex of vein 2. Underside: dull hair-brown to ochraceous brown. Forewing: two pairs of short, slender, transverse white strigae, the inner pair from costa to median vein across middle of cell, the outer pair from costa along each side of the discocellulars stopping short at lower apex of cell; a transverse, discal, bisinuate, catenulated (chain-like) narrow band formed of a double series of slender white lunules followed by an inner and outer subterminal series of transversely elongate spots enclosed in or bordered on the inner and outer sides by obscure slender whitish lunules; lastly, a dark brown anteciliary line. Hindwing: crossed by the following slender white lunular lines: two subbasal, two short lines near apex of cell, one on each side of the discocellulars, and two highly irregular, sinuous and broken on the disc; these are followed by some obscure lunular subterminal markings of dull white lines, in interspaces 1 and 2 by subterminal black spots, and a dark brown anteciliary line. …

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Range & habitat

Kumaon to Sikkim; Bhutan; Bengal; southern India: Nilgiris, Cochin; Chittagong; Upper and Lower Burma; Tenasserim; Sri Lanka, Maldives.

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