''Arhopala hellenore'', Doherty's green oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid 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 1889. 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 ...

- Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan (''A. h. hellenore'') Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya (''A. h. siroes'' Fruhstorfer, 1914).Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'' 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur

Subspecies

*''Arhopala hellenore hellenore'' (Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan) *''Arhopala hellenore siroes'' Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)

References

External links

"''Arhopala'' Boisduval, 1832"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Arhopala Butterflies described in 1889 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by William Doherty {{Theclinae-stub