Aslauga

Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora. They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.

Original description by William Forsell Kirby:

"Wings short and broad, very densely scaled; anterior wings strongly curved outwards in the middle of the hind margin; posterior wings with a concavity on the inner margin at the anal angle. Anterior wings with the subcostal nervure five-branched, the first two branches emitted near together before the end of the cell and parallel, the other three short and emitted near the apex of the wing; the third and fourth parallel, running into the costa before the apex, the fifth running to the hind margin just below the apex".

Species

 * Aslauga abri Collins & Libert, 1997
 * Aslauga atrophifurca Cottrell, 1981
 * Aslauga aura Druce, 1913
 * Aslauga australis Cottrell, 1981
 * Aslauga bella Bethune-Baker, 1913
 * Aslauga bitjensis Bethune-Baker, 1925
 * Aslauga bouyeri Libert, 1994
 * Aslauga camerunica Stempffer, 1969
 * Aslauga confusa Libert, 1994
 * Aslauga ernesti (Karsch, 1895)
 * Aslauga febe (Libert, 1994)
 * Aslauga guineensis Collins & Libert, 1997
 * Aslauga imitans Libert, 1994
 * Aslauga kallimoides Schultze, 1912
 * Aslauga karamoja (Libert, 1994)
 * Aslauga katangana (Romieux, 1937)
 * Aslauga lamborni Bethune-Baker, 1914
 * Aslauga latifurca Cottrell, 1981
 * Aslauga marginalis Kirby, 1890
 * Aslauga marshalli Butler, 1898
 * Aslauga modesta Schultze, 1923
 * Aslauga orientalis Cottrell, 1981
 * Aslauga pandora Druce, 1913
 * Aslauga prouvosti Libert & Bouyer, 1997
 * Aslauga purpurascens Holland, 1890
 * Aslauga satyroides Libert, 1994
 * Aslauga tanga Libert & Collins, 1997
 * Aslauga vininga (Hewitson, 1875)