Number: 170
Family: Lycaeniidae
Sub-Family: Polyommatiinae
Sub-Family: Polyommatiinae
Species: Tongeia potanini potanini (Alphéraky, 1889)
Common name(s): The Dark Cupid
Photography location: Cuc Phuong N.P. (Ninh Binh Prov.)
Tongeia potanini puddling on the forest floor (May 2016, Cuc Phuong N.P.)
Note the two prominent orange-crowned tornal spots in spaces 2 and 3, the black postdiscal spots
conjoined on both wings
Two species of Tongeia are known from Vietnam (Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2016): T. potanini (subsp. potanini in the North, subsp. umbriel in Central VN) and T. ion (North only).
Note the two prominent orange-crowned tornal spots in spaces 2 and 3, the black postdiscal spots
conjoined on both wings
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