# Logania distanti

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***Logania distanti***, the **dark mottle**,[1] is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the [lycaenids or blues](/source/Lycaenidae) (family Lycaenidae). It was first described by [Georg Semper](/source/Georg_Semper) in 1889.

## Description

### Male

Upperside dark brown. Forewing: a medial dull whitish spot at base of interspace 3 extended upwards on to vein 4 and below into interspace 2. Hindwing; uniform, immaculate. Underside: very pale dull brown, with darker brown mottlings and striae, that on the forewing are absent on a broad streak from base outwards along the basal half of the dorsum, this area pale brown without markings; a dark obscure spot at apex of cell and an incomplete similarly obscure dark transverse discal band. On the hindwing the mottlings coalesce and form three or four very ill-defined, obscure, transverse, somewhat broad bands. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Sex-mark: the base of vein 4 swollen and bare of scales.

### Female

"Above black, a round dull white discal area on the forewing from just above the upper median (vein 4) almost to the submedian vein (vein 1). Below irregularly speckled and variegated; forewing with the costal and apical parts ochreous brown, the rest blackish. Hindwing also tinged with ochreous, a submarginal dark area, and obscure dark transverse bands. Hindwing not angled, the margin entire." (Doherty quoted in Bingham)[2]

## Range

Assam - Myanmar, Malaya, Borneo?, Thailand, Laos, Sumatra.[1]

## Taxonomy

The butterfly is also referred to as *Logania massalia* Doherty, 1891.[3]

## See also

- [List of butterflies of India](/source/List_of_butterflies_of_India)
- [List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)](/source/List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Lycaenidae))

## References

1. Savela, Markku. ["*Logania distanti* Semper, 1889"](http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/miletinae/logania/#distanti). *Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms*. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

1. Bingham, C. T. (1907). [*The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II*](https://archive.org/details/butterflies02bingiala). London: [Taylor and Francis, Ltd.](/source/Taylor_%26_Francis)

## External links

- Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001). ["Genus *Logania*"](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/Miletini-Phil/Logania.html). *A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20010628231201/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/Miletini-Phil/Logania.html) June 28, 2001 at the Wayback Machine. – via Internet Archive. With images.

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