''Allotinus nicholsi'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterf ...

. It was described by Moulton in 1912. It is found on

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and ea ...

and Sumatra.

Subspecies

*''Allotinus nicholsi nicholsi'' (Borneo: Sarawak) *''Allotinus nicholsi battakanus'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Sumatra: Battak Mountains)

References

Butterflies described in 1912 Allotinus Butterflies of Borneo {{Miletinae-stub