| Lamprolenis | |
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| Lamprolenis nitida' in Seitz | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subtribe: | Hypocystina |
| Genus: | Lamprolenis Godman & Salvin, 1880 |
| Species: | L. nitida |
| Binomial name | |
| Lamprolenis nitida Godman & Salvin, 1880 | |
Lamprolenis is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Its one species is Lamprolenis nitida.
The figure (see plate right c) shows the characteristic of the species, a wonderful green reflection, which gradually changes distad into a more intensive and. brilliant golden bronze-colour, a decoration with which no other Indo-Australian Satyrid. can even distantly compare. The very rare female is essentially larger, paler brown, the hindwing shows only slight traces of the metallic sheen, but is instead ornamented with a very large black ocellus with brown-yellow border, which is always well developed on the forewing also. In the males as n the example figured, the anal ocellus on the upperside of the hindwing s commonly absent. According to Hagen the species flies in the woods at Astrolabe Bay in March. I Hans Fruhstorfer ] myself have received it from the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafe.
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