''Arhopala ammonides'' 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 Doherty William Doherty (May 15, 1857 in Cincinnati – May 25, 1901 in Nairobi) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring. He died of dysentery while in Nairobi. Tr ...

in 1891. 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 ...

Subspecies

*''A. a. ammonides'' (Burma, Mergui) *''A. a. elira'' Corbet, 1941 (Assam) *''A. a. chunsu'' Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya) *''A. a. monava'' Corbet, 1941 (Langkawi) *''A. a. bowringi'' (Evans, 1957) (Hainan) *''A. a. kalabakana'' Eliot, 1972 (Sabah) *''A. a. apurpurosa'' Barlow, Banks & Holloway, 1971 (Borneo) Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175

References

External links

"''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved June 7, 2017. Arhopala Butterflies described in 1891 Taxa named by William Doherty Butterflies of Asia {{Theclinae-stub