''Arhopala alaconia'' is a species of butterfly belonging to the

lycaenid 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 butterfl ...

family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1869. 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 ...

(Borneo, Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya and Palawan). Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175

Subspecies

*''Arhopala alaconia alaconia'' (Borneo) *''Arhopala alaconia aloana'' Corbet, 1941 (central Burma) *''Arhopala alaconia media'' (Evans, 1957) (Mergui, southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia) *''Arhopala alaconia oberthuri'' (Staudinger, 1889) (Palawan)

References

External links

"''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved June 7, 2017. Arhopala Butterflies described in 1869 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Theclinae-stub