''Arhopala sakaguchii'' 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 ...

of 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 ...

first described by Hisakazu Hayashi in 1981. It is found on the Philippine islands of

Negros Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas, in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region a ...

and

Mindoro Mindoro is the seventh largest and eighth-most populous island in the Philippines. With a total land area of 10,571 km2 ( 4,082 sq.mi ) and has a population of 1,408,454 as of 2020 census. It is located off the southwestern coast of Luz ...

References

* (1981)
"New Lycaenid Butterflies from the Philippines"
''Tyô to Ga''. 32 (1,2): 63–82. * (1985)
"On the Female of ''Narathura sakaguchii'' (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)"
''Tyô to Ga''. 36 (1): 31. * (1995). "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 14: 7–118. * * (2005). "A revision of ''Arhopala aedias'' (Hewitson, 1862) and its allied species from the Philippunes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". ''Butterflies'' (Teinopalpus). 41: 19–26. * (2012)." Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 20: 1-64. Butterflies described in 1981 Arhopala Butterflies of Asia {{Theclinae-stub