''Arhopala ammon'', the Malayan oakblue, is a species of

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 ...

or blue

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

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 ...

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

References

Arhopala Fauna of Pakistan Butterflies of Singapore Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1862 Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Theclinae-stub