''Hypochlorosis ancharia'' 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 on
Waigeo in Indonesia, and in the
Dampier Archipelago in the north of Australia.
Subspecies
*''Hypochlorosis ancharia ancharia'' (Indonesia: Waigeo)
*''Hypochlorosis ancharia tenebrosa''
Rothschild, 1915 (New Guinea: Dampier Island)
References
*, 1977. ''Butterflies of the Australian Region'', edn 2. 415 pp. Melbourne.
*, 1894. Descriptions of three new Lycaenidae from New Guinea. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (6)13
252-255
*, 1916. Lycaenidae (in part), pp. 824–849 ''in'' (Ed.) 1927. ''Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Die Indo-Australischen Tagfalter.'' Vol. 9. Stuttgart.
*, 1863-1878. ''Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae''. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp
TextPlates
*, 1998. ''The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea'' Academic Press,
Butterflies described in 1869
Theclinae
Butterflies of Indonesia
Butterflies of Australia
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
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