Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora.[1] They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Miletinae |
| Tribe: | Liphyrini |
| Genus: | Aslauga Kirby, 1890 |
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Original description by William Forsell Kirby:
"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex".[2]
Species edit
- Aslauga abri Collins & Libert, 1997
- Aslauga atrophifurca Cottrell, 1981
- Aslauga aura Druce, 1913
- Aslauga australis Cottrell, 1981
- Aslauga bella Bethune-Baker, 1913
- Aslauga bitjensis Bethune-Baker, 1925
- Aslauga bouyeri Libert, 1994
- Aslauga camerunica Stempffer, 1969
- Aslauga confusa Libert, 1994
- Aslauga ernesti (Karsch, 1895)
- Aslauga febe (Libert, 1994)
- Aslauga guineensis Collins & Libert, 1997
- Aslauga imitans Libert, 1994
- Aslauga kallimoides Schultze, 1912
- Aslauga karamoja (Libert, 1994)
- Aslauga katangana (Romieux, 1937)
- Aslauga lamborni Bethune-Baker, 1914
- Aslauga latifurca Cottrell, 1981
- Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890
- Aslauga marshalli Butler, 1898
- Aslauga modesta Schultze, 1923
- Aslauga orientalis Cottrell, 1981
- Aslauga pandora Druce, 1913
- Aslauga prouvosti Libert & Bouyer, 1997
- Aslauga purpurascens Holland, 1890
- Aslauga satyroides Libert, 1994
- Aslauga tanga Libert & Collins, 1997
- Aslauga vininga (Hewitson, 1875)
References edit
- ^ "Aslauga". BOLD.
- ^ Kirby,W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 6 (33): 261-274
Libert, M. 1994. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains: Mise au point sur le genre Aslauga Kirby. Lambillionea, 94 (3) : 411–434.
External links edit
- Aslauga at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- Seitz A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64
- Images at BOLD
- Fauna Africains Libert