Suasa (butterfly)

Suasa is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by Lionel de Nicéville in 1890. Its only species, Suasa lisides, the red imperial, was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is a small butterfly first known from India. The species is widespread in Southeast Asia, from Assam to Vietnam (ssp.madaura Fruhstorfer, 1912) Palawan (ssp.liris (Staudinger, 1889) and in Peninsula Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra (ssp.suessa de Nicéville, [1893]).

Red imperial
Male, upperside
S. lisides liris Staudinger (Palawan)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Suasa de Nicéville, 1890
Species:	S. lisides
Binomial name
Suasa lisides (Hewitson 1863)

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

External links

• Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001). "Genus Suasa". A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Archived from the original on July 14, 2001 – via Internet Archive. With images.