''Deudorix kessuma'' 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 is found in

south-east 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 south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

. Larvae feed on

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species, the first three instars bore into the seed pods.

Subspecies

*''Deudorix kessuma kessuma'' (Java) *''Deudorix kessuma deliochus'' Hewitson, 1874 (Burma to Singapore and possibly Indochina) *''Deudorix kessuma clearchus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (Sumbawa, Lombok) *''Deudorix kessuma throana'' (Fruhstorfer, 1914) (Borneo and possibly Sumatra)

References

Butterflies described in 1829 Deudorigini Butterflies of Borneo Deudorix {{Theclinae-stub