Jameela albiplaga
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Jameela Albiplaga ( Syn. Erysichton albiplaga ) is a butterfly from the family of Gossamer (Lycaenidae). Since the establishment of the genus Jameela by Grund & Eastwood in 2010, it has been assigned to the genus Jameela . Only three individuals of the species have been caught so far.
features
The males are similar to Jameela palmyra . They have purple-blue wing tops, but they are so transparent that the white diagonal bars on the wing undersides show through. On each of the hind wings a double black, submarginal point is formed in cellule 1, followed by a dark spot on the inside. A larger point is located in cellule 2 and submarginal points are indicated in all cellules of the apex. Pale internural lines adjoin these points on the outside. Both pairs of wings are framed by a fine, dark margin line. The females are colored glossy blue at the base of both pairs of wings. On the forewings, the blue extends to the basal half of the cell . On the hind wings the blue is sharply delimited, the border running almost straight from the costa over the points of the origin of the wing veins 7 and 2 to the wing inner edge. This is followed by a wide white band that extends to the inner edge of the hind wings. On the forewings, a black costal band extends into the upper half of the cell and to the apex, where it meets a marginal band at least four millimeters wide. On the hind wings there is a similar marginal bandage, which is covered with whitish-blue scales inwards in the area where it meets the distal edge of the white bandage. There are more or less distinct, blue-edged, dark spots. The wing edge is white in both sexes and dark brownish-gray spotted at the ends of the wing veins.
On the underside of the wing, the males are blackish brown and wear a conspicuous, at the widest point three millimeters wide, tapered at both ends, white, oblique band, which extends from just below the costa of the forewings to the inner edge of the hind wings. Two wavy, fine, white lines run over the cell of the fore wings. The outer is extended over the hind wing. A more distinct whitish line borders the inner edge of the arch of the discoid lunula. Behind the wide white band there is a median band of dots that are darker than the basic color. They are also bordered white on their curved, distal edges. A series of submarginal spots is delimited on the inside by a corresponding series of very dark lunulae. Both rows have a fine white border. The eye spot on the tornus of the hind wings is black and patterned with metallic green scales. In addition, it has a golden yellow border on the inside. The eye spot in Cellule 1 is similarly colored, but smaller. The wing fringes are dotted on the top. The females have largely the same pattern, but the white band is up to five millimeters wide.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is common in the Australian region. The holo- and allotype was caught on Lavongai , an island in the Bismarck Archipelago . The species occurs together with species of the genera Danis and Psychonotis and probably belongs to the mimicry chain Danis – Perpheres – Psychonotis , which arose through convergence . Nothing is known about the way of life or the pre-imaginal stages.
Taxonomy and systematics
In 2010 the species was separated from the genus Erysichton by Grund & Eastwood together with Jameela palmyra and assigned to the newly established genus Jameela , whereby Erysichton now only includes the type species Erysichton lineata and is therefore monotypical .
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Roger Grund & Rod Eastwood: New Australian butterfly genus Jameela gen. Nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae: Polyommatini) revealed by morphological, ecological and molecular data . In: Entomological Science . No. 13, 2010, pp. 134-143. doi : 10.1111 / j.1479-8298.2010.00368.x .
- ↑ a b c Toshiya Hirowatari: A generic classification of the Tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian Regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae) . In: Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture . No. 44, 1992, pp. 1-102.