''Arhopala camdeo'', the lilac oakblue, 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

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1858. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

(Sikkim to Assam, Bhutan, Manipur, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam). Easily recognised by the colouring above; the male is very light sky-blue, with a large white discal spot. Wings of female broadly and irregularly margined. Beneath all the transverse bands are broken up into rows of ring-spots.Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln

Subspecies

*''Arhopala camdeo camdeo'' (India: Sikkim to Assam, Bhutan, Manipur, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam) *''Arhopala camdeo sebonga'' Tytler, 1926 (India)

References

External links

''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Arhopala Butterflies described in 1858 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Frederic Moore {{Theclinae-stub