''Arhopala antharita'' is a

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 ...

in the family

Lycaenidae 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 ...

. It was described by

Henley Grose-Smith Henley Grose-Smith (1833–1911) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of Walter Rothschild. His collections were sold to James John Joicey ...

in 1894. It is found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

.''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved June 3, 2017.

Subspecies

*''A. a. antharita'' (West Irian: Humboldt Bay) *''A. a. hyacinthus'' (Röber, 1931) (West Irian: Eilanden R., Oetakwa R.)

References

Arhopala Butterflies described in 1894 Taxa named by Henley Grose-Smith Butterflies of Oceania {{Theclinae-stub