Suasa (butterfly) explained

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]).

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Book: Evans . William Harry Evans

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

• Book: Gaonkar, Harish . Harish Gaonkar

. Harish Gaonkar . Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System . Centre for Ecological Sciences . Bangalore, India . 1996.

• Book: Gay . Thomas . Kehimkar . Isaac David . Punetha . Jagdish Chandra . Common Butterflies of India . Nature Guides . World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press . Bombay, India . 1992 . 978-0195631647.
• Book: Haribal, Meena . The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History . Gangtok, Sikkim, India . Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation . 1992.
• Book: Kunte, Krushnamegh . Butterflies of Peninsular India . India, A Lifescape . Hyderabad, India . Universities Press . 2000 . 978-8173713545.
• Book: Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander . Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth

. Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth . Butterflies of the Indian Region . 1957 . Bombay, India . . 978-8170192329.

External links

• Web site: Takanami . Yusuke . Seki . Yasuo . amp . 2001 . Genus Suasa . A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines . https://web.archive.org/web/20010714105635/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/Theclinae-Phil/Suasa.html . July 14, 2001 . Internet Archive. With images.