Aslauga

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Miletinae
Tribus: Liphyrini
Genus: Aslauga
Species: A. abri – A. atrophifurca – A. aura – A. australis – A. bella – A. bitjensis – A. bouyeri – A. camerunica – A. confusa – A. ernesti – A. febe – A. gallmannae – A. guineensis – A. imitans – A. kallimoides – A. karamoja – A. katangana – A. lamborni – A. larseni – A. latifurca – A. marginalis – A. marshalli – A. modesta – A. orientalis – A. pandora – A. prouvosti – A. purpurascens – A. satyroides – A. tanga – A. vininga
Name

Aslauga Kirby, 1890
Synonymy

Egumbia Bethune-Baker, 1924
Paraslauga Bethune-Baker, 1924
Euliphyrodes Romieux, 1937.

References

Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371–505.
Libert, M. & Collins, S.C. 2013. Description of two new species of African Lycaenidae in the collection of the African Butterfly Research Institute. Metamorphosis 24(1): 3–6. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Sáfián, S. 2015. Aslauga larseni (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Miletinae), a unique new species from the Nimba Mountains, Liberia. Metamorphosis 26: 26–29. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Mark C. Williams, 2008, Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea.

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.

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

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

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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.