The
Forest Quaker is a small
butterflyA butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
found in
IndiaIndia , 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...
that belongs to the
Lycaenids or BluesThe Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...
family.
Description
Male upperside: brown, in fresh specimens generally uniform, in some slightly paler along a posterior area from base outwards on the fore wing. This is more commnu in the female than in the male. Underside: milk-white. Fore wing: a few very obscure specks along the costa,and a postdiscal transverse series of four transversely elongate spots, or short broad lines, pale brown; the spots of the latter arranged two subcostal and two posterior close to the tornal angle; beyond these is a continuous transverse broad brown line that gets paler posteriorly, from costa to dorsum, followed by a subterminal series of similarly-coloured transverse spots, one in each interspace; at the apox these are generally coalescent with the inner brown line; lastly an anticiliary dark brown line. Cilia dark brown. Hind wing: a curved postdiscal series of transverse pale brown spots that terminate at the costa in a prominent large rouud black spot; a continuous broad pale brown curved line followed by a subterminal dark brown series of spots and an anticiliary line as on the fore wing. Cilia white. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen brown; the antennae spotted with white on the inner side: beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen white.
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