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.

Description, life history

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

Callenya lenya lenya (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo)
Callenya lenya baluana (Sabah, Borneo)

Bibliography

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

^ 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.

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[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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