Description Zizina_otis

1 description

1.1 male upperside
1.2 male underside
1.3 female upperside
1.4 female underside

description

male upperside

pale violet blue, silvery sheen in lights, forewing: broad brown edging along termen, covers in specimens quite outer fourth of wing, while in others narrower. broadest @ apex , bounded anticiliary darker line, beyond cilia brownish @ base , white outwardly.

hindwing: anterior or costal third half , apex brown; slender black anticiliary line, beyond cilia in forewing.

male underside

brownish grey. forewing: short, transverse, dusky lunule on discocellulars , transverse, anteriorly curved, discal series of 7 minute black spots, spots more or less rounded, posterior 2 geminate (paired), discocellular lunule , each discal spot conspicuously encircled white; terminal markings beyond above consist of inner , outer transverse subterminal series of dusky spots, each spot edged on inner side obscurely dusky white, inner line of spots lunular, outer spots more or less rounded. cilia dusky.

hindwing: transverse, curved, sub-basal series of 4 spots , irregular transverse discal series of 9 small spots black, each spot encircled narrowly white. of discal spots posterior 4 placed in outwardly oblique, curved line, middle 2 spots geminate; 3 spots above these placed in oblique transverse line further outwards; lastly, anterior 2 spots posited 1 on other , shifted inwards, above apex of cell; discocellular lunule , terminal markings on forewing, inner subterminal lunular line in latter broader , more prominent. cilia dusky. antenna black, shafts ringed white; head, thorax , abdomen brown, little blue scaling; beneath: white.

female upperside

brown, more or less distinct suffusion of violet blue @ bases of wings, on hindwing continued obscurely along dorsum; both forewings , hindwings slender anticiliary lines, darker ground colour.

female underside

ground colour darker in male, markings precisely similar. antennae, head, thorax , abdomen in male, thorax , abdomen above without blue scaling.