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List of Species of Actizera 



*Actizera atrigemmata (Butler), 1878. Fig. Mabille, 1885 : 87. 



* Actizera lucida lucida (Trimen), 1883. Fig. Trimen, 1906. 

 Actizera lucida drucei (Bethune Baker), 1906. 



* Actizera stellata (Trimen), 1883. Fig. Trimen, 1906. 



Genus LYCAENA Fabricius 



/ Mtiena Fabricius, 1807, Illiger. Mag. 6 : 285 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 148. Type-species : 

 Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus (a palearctic species), designated by Curtis, 1828, Brit. ent. 5 : 

 pi. 12. 



Heodes Dalman : Aurivillius, 1898; 382; 1925: 497; Murray, 1053: 139- 



Eyes smooth ; palpi long, divergent, second segment long, laterally compressed, clothed 

 with white scales and bearing below long black bristles, third segment more slender with obtuse 

 apex ; antennae slender, three-fifths the length of the costa, club elongate, fusiform ; thorax 

 clothed below with long white silky hair ; □* fore leg, femur clothed with long white hair, tibia 

 shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finch- spinose below, metatarsus of hind legs 

 swollen. 



Wing shape. Fore wing triangular, costa convex at its base, then straight, apex acute, 

 outer margin slightly convex ; hind wing suboval, somewhat produced at the anal angle in 

 phlaeas but not in orus. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 348). Fore wing with i i veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 228). Uncus composed of two elongate oval lobes well separated 

 from the tegumen, to which they are attached narrowlv by their bases on either side of the 

 median depression ; subunci long, evenly curved, slightly swollen in the middle ; tegumen 

 reduced to a narrow band, vinculum rather narrow, with a tapering saccus ; lower fultura 

 composed of two lamellae obliquely truncated at their apices and fused by their bases to the 

 base of the valves, valves oblong, widened apically with a rounded spinose apex ; penis elongate, 



Fig. 228. Lycaena phlaeas pseudophlaeas (Lucas), 5* genitalia. 



