''Arhopala aida'' or white-stained oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the
lycaenid family described by
Lionel de Nicéville
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...
in 1889. It is found in
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
(Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Langkawi, Pulau Tenggol, Indochina, Hainan, and Peninsular Malaya).
[ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175]
Subspecies
*''Arhopala aida aida''
*''Arhopala aida ophir''
(Evans, 1957) (Peninsular Malaya:
Mount Ophir
Mount Ledang ( ms, Gunung Ledang; historically also: Mount Ophir) is a mountain in the Gunung Ledang National Park located in Tangkak District, Johor, Malaysia. The summit is located next to the tripoint of Tangkak, Jasin and Tampin Distri ...
)
References
External links
"''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
Arhopala
Butterflies described in 1889
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville
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