Callenya lenya
| Long-winged hedge blue | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Callenya |
| Species: | C. lenya
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| Binomial name | |
| Callenya lenya (Evans, 1932)
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Callenya lenya, the long-winged hedge blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
Distribution
[edit]Callenya lenya is found in southern Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. In Kinabalu Park in Sabah, it is recorded from Kampung Kundasang, the Langganan waterfall, and Kampung Sayap.[1] In Cambodia's Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, it is found above 800 metres on the Khamaoch massif.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]- Callenya lenya lenya (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo)
- Callenya lenya baluana (Sabah, Borneo)
Bibliography
[edit]- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Corbet, A.S.,1940: "Observations on Species of Lycaenidae from the Malay Peninsula (Lepid., Rhop.)". Proceedings Royal Entomological Society, London. (B)9(1):1-6, 7 figures.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.