''Jamides aritai''
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of the family

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. Forewing length: 15–19 mm. It is found in the

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Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

and northern and central Maluku. Two

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are described:

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''J. r. aritai'' is distributed through the Philippines, Sulawesi and Morotai in northern Maluku. Subspecies ''J. r. sabina'' is in central Maluku (Buru, Ceram and Ambon).

Subspecies

* ''Jamides aritai aritai'' H. Hayashi,

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/small> * ''Jamides aritai sabina'' Rawlins, Cassidy, et al., 2014

References

* Hayashi, Hisakazu, 1977
New subspecies of ''Jamides'' and ''Udara'' from Palawan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
''Tyo-to-Ga''. 27 (4): 151-155. * Cassidy, Alan C., 2013: On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia (Lepidoptera). ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', N.F. 34 (3): 137-144. * Rawlins, A., Cassidy, Alan C., and et al., 2014: An illustrated and annotated checklist of ''Jamides'' Hübner, 1819, taxa occurring in the Indonesian provinces of Northern Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', N.F. 35 (1/2): 5-39. Jamides Butterflies described in 1977 {{Lycaenidae-stub