Callenya lenya

Callenya lenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Callenya
Species: C. lenya
Binomial name
Callenya lenya
(Evans, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Lycaenopsis lenya Evans, 1932
  • Celastrina cowani Corbet, 1940

Callenya lenya, the "Long-Winged Hedge Blue", is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family.

Distribution

C. lenya is found in southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Borneo. In Kinabalu Park, it is recorded from Kampung Kundasang, Langanan waterfall, and Kampung Sayap.[1] In Cambodia's Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, it is found above 800 metres on the Khamaoch massif.[2]

Subspecies

Bibliography

References

  1. Hauser, Christoph L.; Christian H. Schulze; Konrad Fiedler (1997). "THE BUTTERFLY SPECIES (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA: RHOPALOCERA) OF KINABALU PARK, SABAH" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 45 (2): 281–304.
  2. Monastyrskii, A.L.; Masaya Yago; Kenichi Odagiri (2011). "Butterfly assemblages (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of the Cardamom Mountains, Southwest Cambodia(Appendix 1: Checklist of butterflies recorded in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary)" (PDF). Cambodian Journal of Natural History. 2: 122–130.


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