Biology:Electrostrymon pan

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Electrostrymon pan
Illustrations of Exotic Entomology Thecla Pan.jpg
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Electrostrymon
Species:
E. pan
Binomial name
Electrostrymon pan
(Drury, 1773)
Synonyms
  • Papilio pan Drury, 1773
  • Thecla tirrhaea Möschler, 1886

Electrostrymon pan is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.[1] It was described by Dru Drury in 1773 from Jamaica.

Description

Upperside: antennae black. Thorax, abdomen, and wings dark brown, or dark hair-coloured; the latter being furnished with two small tails like hairs, the extremities being white.

Underside: palpi white. Breast greyish. Wings nearly the same colour as on the upperside. The posterior having two eyes on each at the abdominal corners; one being black with a red iris, the other grey and faint; above them is a small indented white line, pointing to a spot of the same colour placed at the middle of the anterior edge. Wingspan ​1 14 inches (32 mm).[2]

References

  1. "Electrostrymon Clench, 1961" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John. ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. 2. p. 44. pl. XXIII.. 

Wikidata ☰ Q18589053 entry