Callenya lenya explained

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

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

• Book: Evans . W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. The Butterfly Species (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of Kinabalu Park, Sabah . Hauser, Christoph L. . Christian H. Schulze . Konrad Fiedler . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 1997 . 45 . 2 . 281–304.
2. Butterfly assemblages (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of the Cardamom Mountains, Southwest Cambodia(Appendix 1: Checklist of butterflies recorded in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary) . Monastyrskii, A.L. . Masaya Yago . Kenichi Odagiri . Cambodian Journal of Natural History . 2011 . 2 . 122–130.