Callenya lenya, the long-winged hedge blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Callenya |
| Species: | C. lenya
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| Callenya lenya (Evans, 1932)
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Distribution
editCallenya lenya is found in southern Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. In Kinabalu Park in Sabah, it is recorded from Kampung Kundasang, the Langganan waterfall, and Kampung Sayap.[1] In Cambodia's Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, it is found above 800 metres on the Khamaoch massif.[2]
Subspecies
edit- Callenya lenya lenya (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo)
- Callenya lenya baluana (Sabah, Borneo)
Bibliography
edit- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Corbet, A.S.,1940: "Observations on Species of Lycaenidae from the Malay Peninsula (Lepid., Rhop.)". Proceedings Royal Entomological Society, London. (B)9(1):1-6, 7 figures.
References
edit- ^ Hauser, Christoph L.; Christian H. Schulze; Konrad Fiedler (1997). "The Butterfly Species (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of Kinabalu Park, Sabah" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 45 (2): 281–304.
- ^ Monastyrskii, A.L.; Masaya Yago; Kenichi Odagiri (2011). "Butterfly assemblages (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of the Cardamom Mountains, Southwest Cambodia(Appendix 1: Checklist of butterflies recorded in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary)" (PDF). Cambodian Journal of Natural History. 2: 122–130.