Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora. They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.
Original description by William Forsell Kirby:
"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex".Kirby, W.F., 1890 Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 6 (33): 261-274
Species Aslauga abri Collins & Libert, 1997 Aslauga atrophifurca Cottrell, 1981 Aslauga aura Druce, 1913 Aslauga australis Cottrell, 1981 Aslauga bella Bethune-Baker, 1913 Aslauga bitjensis Bethune-Baker, 1925 Aslauga bouyeri Libert, 1994 Aslauga camerunica Stempffer, 1969 Aslauga confusa Libert, 1994 Aslauga ernesti (Karsch, 1895) Aslauga febe (Libert, 1994) Aslauga guineensis Collins & Libert, 1997 Aslauga imitans Libert, 1994 Aslauga kallimoides Schultze, 1912 Aslauga karamoja (Libert, 1994) Aslauga katangana (Romieux, 1937) Aslauga lamborni Bethune-Baker, 1914 Aslauga latifurca Cottrell, 1981 Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890 Aslauga marshalli Butler, 1898 Aslauga modesta Schultze, 1923 Aslauga orientalis Cottrell, 1981 Aslauga pandora Druce, 1913 Aslauga prouvosti Libert & Bouyer, 1997 Aslauga purpurascens Holland, 1890 Aslauga satyroides Libert, 1994 Aslauga tanga Libert & Collins, 1997 Aslauga vininga (Hewitson, 1875)
References
Libert, M. 1994. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains: Mise au point sur le genre Aslauga Kirby. Lambillionea, 94 (3) : 411–434.
External links Aslauga at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Seitz A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64 Images at BOLD Fauna Africains Libert