''Antigius butleri '' is a small

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

found in the East

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

(Amur, Korea, North China) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description from Seitz

Above like '' A. attilia'', but the pale spots on the hindwing, which in ''attilia'' are only found in the female, occur in the present species in both sexes, although they are duller in the male than in the female. The characteristic markings of the underside are slightly visible above and are more irregularly arranged beneath, especially on the hindwing, the dark discal band moreover being separated into an irregular row of spots; thus ''butleri'' forms a kind of link between '' enthea'' and ''ottilia''. — Amurland and North Japan, apparently rare everywhere.Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)

Subspecies

*''Antigius butleri butleri'' Japan (Hokkaido) *''Antigius butleri oberthueri'' (Staudinger, 1887) continental part, Ussuri, Priamurye, Primorye, *''Antigius butleri miniakonga'' (Yoshino, 1999) Sichuan

References

Theclini Butterflies described in 1882 {{Theclinae-stub

Description from Seitz

Subspecies

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