''Loxura cassiopeia'' 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 was described by

William Lucas Distant William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...

in 1884. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

Subspecies

* ''Loxura cassiopeia cassiopeia'' (Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand) * ''Loxura cassiopeia amatica'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (northern Borneo, Palawan) * ''Loxura cassiopeia numana'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (western Sumatra) * ''Loxura cassiopeia fuscicaudata'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Nias) * ''Loxura cassiopeia batunensis'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Batu) * ''Loxura cassiopeia yilma'' Fruhstorfer, 1926 (Mindanao) * ''Loxura cassiopeia ptesia'' Riley, 1945 (Mentawi) * ''Loxura cassiopeia takioi'' Hayashi, 1976 (Palawan) * ''Loxura cassiopeia owadai'' Hayashi, 1976 (Mindanao)

References

External links

''Loxura''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q13485216 Loxura Butterflies described in 1884