''Catapaecilma nakamotoi'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group compris ...

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 1979. It is a rare species,

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the island of

Mindanao Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...

in the southern

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. Its forewing length is 17–19 mm.

References

* Hayashi, Hisakazu (1979)
"New Lycaenid Butterflies from Mindanao, the Philippines"
''Tyô to Ga''. 30 (1,2): 83-90. * (1995). "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 14: 7-118. * * (2012). "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 20: 1-64. Lepidoptera of the Philippines Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fauna of Mindanao Butterflies described in 1979 Catapaecilma {{Theclinae-stub