Albulina omphisa
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The Dusky Green Underwing (Albulina omphisa) is a species of blue butterfly
found in Europe
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Male has the upper sides of wings dark brown. Fore and hind wings are overlaid from base outwards for some distance with purplish blue, clear dark blue or shining metallic green. The extent of this colour very variable ; in some specimens, on the fore wing it spreads irregularly outwards mainly along the costa and on the hind wing in the middle to the disc; in others, it covers the basal three-fourths of the wings, leaving a well-defined broad terminal margin of the ground-colour on the fore wing, and on the hind wing, broad costal, terminal and dorsal margins ; cilia conspicuously white.
Underside of fore wing is a clear, slightly brownish grey, paler along the costal and terminal margins ; a transverse, slightly lunular discocellular spot and a transverse series of six small discal spots black, all with slender white edgings, the discal series placed in a slight curve, the posterior three spots en echelon ; no terminal markings except an anticiliary dark line. Hind wing metallic green ; in many specimens faint traces of one or two subbasal spots, entirely absent in others ; a discocellular spot and a curved, transverse, discal series of from three to five spots, white ; terminal markings, with the exception of a slender anticiliary dark line, absent, as on the fore wing.
Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brownish black, the shafts of the antennae ringed with white, the head, thorax and abdomen with some bluish pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white, the palpi fringed anteriorly with stiff black hairs.
Female has the upperside uniform brown. Fore and hind wings with slender, black, anti-ciliary lines and conspicuous snow-white cilia. Many specimens have some slight irroration of blue scales at the bases of the wings. Underside similar to that of the male, the black spots on the fore and the white spots on the hind wing generally larger, and on the latter wing more clearly defined.
Wing expanse of 26–33 mm.
(Lahul), Northern Pakistan
, in the Himalayas
(Chitral, Ladakh), and north to China
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Lycaenidae
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found in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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Description
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Male has the upper sides of wings dark brown. Fore and hind wings are overlaid from base outwards for some distance with purplish blue, clear dark blue or shining metallic green. The extent of this colour very variable ; in some specimens, on the fore wing it spreads irregularly outwards mainly along the costa and on the hind wing in the middle to the disc; in others, it covers the basal three-fourths of the wings, leaving a well-defined broad terminal margin of the ground-colour on the fore wing, and on the hind wing, broad costal, terminal and dorsal margins ; cilia conspicuously white.
Underside of fore wing is a clear, slightly brownish grey, paler along the costal and terminal margins ; a transverse, slightly lunular discocellular spot and a transverse series of six small discal spots black, all with slender white edgings, the discal series placed in a slight curve, the posterior three spots en echelon ; no terminal markings except an anticiliary dark line. Hind wing metallic green ; in many specimens faint traces of one or two subbasal spots, entirely absent in others ; a discocellular spot and a curved, transverse, discal series of from three to five spots, white ; terminal markings, with the exception of a slender anticiliary dark line, absent, as on the fore wing.
Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brownish black, the shafts of the antennae ringed with white, the head, thorax and abdomen with some bluish pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white, the palpi fringed anteriorly with stiff black hairs.
Female has the upperside uniform brown. Fore and hind wings with slender, black, anti-ciliary lines and conspicuous snow-white cilia. Many specimens have some slight irroration of blue scales at the bases of the wings. Underside similar to that of the male, the black spots on the fore and the white spots on the hind wing generally larger, and on the latter wing more clearly defined.
Wing expanse of 26–33 mm.
Range
The butterfly occurs in IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
(Lahul), Northern Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, in the Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
(Chitral, Ladakh), and north to China
China
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