Chliaria kina

Blue tit
At Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Chliaria (disputed)
Species: C. kina
Binomial name
Chliaria kina
(Hewitson, 1869)
Synonyms

Hypolycaena kina Hewitson, 1869 (but see text)

The blue tit is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was traditionally called Chliaria kina[1] but the genus Chliaria is merged into Hypolycaena by many recent authors.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The hindwing butterfly has two unique tails. Both male and female have pale grey markings of the same colour and a distinctive black-edge on the underside of the wings. These markings are similar to an orchid tit (Chliaria othona) pattern. There are no particular print markings below the costal vein at the anterior of the forewings. The male species have a pale-blue print above the costal vein on the forewing and the upperside of the hindwings are broadly black bordered. The posterior area between the borders and the coral vein are violet in colour. The female species have a dark brown colour with black borders above the coral vein and a white discal posterior section. On both sexes the veins appear very dark on the upperside of the hindwings. [2]

Distribution

Northwest India, Doon Valley to Assam, Burma to Thailand, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaya, Tsekou [Yanmen, Yunnan] Taiwan.

Sunthlekhola
Distribution records of Chliaria kina in India

Status

Locally not rare[2]

Cited references

  1. Card for Chliaria kina in LepIndex. Accessed 9 January 2009.
  2. 1 2 The Book of Indian Butterflies by Isaac Kehimkar 2008 Bombay Natural History Society ISBN 0-19-569620-4

See also

References

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