''Arhopala aedias yendava'', the Singapore oakblue,
[Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter]
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of ''Arhopala aedias
''Arhopala aedias'', the large metallic oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. It is found in Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Bangka, Nias, B ...
'' 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 India
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that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
This beautiful species is above in both sexes dark lilac, the female with a black distal margin of an average width of 4 mm. The postmedian band of the forewdng is here also in the centre very much interrupted, but the two ends of the interruption are nevertheless contiguous, which is not the case
in nominate ''aedias''.[ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln ]
Range
The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim
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onto Myanmar
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Status
Rare.
See also
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
This list is based on Evans (1932) and includes 318 species bel ...
Cited references
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Arhopala
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies described in 1887
Taxa named by Henley Grose-Smith
Butterfly subspecies
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