Callenya lenya

Callenya lenya, the long-winged hedge blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.

Long-winged hedge blue
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

Distribution

Callenya lenya is found in southern Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. In Kinabalu Park in Sabah, it is recorded from Kampung Kundasang, the Langganan 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

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.