Antigius butleri

Antigius butleri is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Amur, Korea, North China) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Antigius butleri
Antigius butleri, female, set specimen, Japan, Alan Cassidy photo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Antigius
Species:
A.butleri
Binomial name
Antigius butleri
(Fenton, 1882) [1]

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

Above like attilia, but the pale spots on the hindwing, which in attilia are only found in the female, occur in the present species in both sexes, although they are duller in the male than in the female. The characteristic markings of the underside are slightly visible above and are more irregularly arranged beneath, especially on the hindwing, the dark discal band moreover being separated into an irregular row of spots; thus butleri forms a kind of link between enthea and ottilia. — Amurland and North Japan, apparently rare everywhere.[2]

Subspecies
  • A. b. butleri Japan (Hokkaido)
  • A. b. oberthueri (Staudinger, 1887) continental part, Ussuri, Priamurye, Primorye,
  • A. b. miniakonga (Yoshino, 1999) Sichuan

See also

References
  1. Arthur G. Butler [1882] On Butterflies from Japan; with which are incorporated Notes and Descriptions of new Species by Montague Fenton. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1881):846-856
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)


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