''Poritia kinoshitai'' 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 comprise ...

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 butterf ...

first described by Hisakazu Hayashi in 1976."''Poritia erycinoides kinoshitai'' H.Hayashi, 1976"
''Osaka Museum of Natural History''. Retrieved January 14, 2020. Its forewing length is 14–15 mm. It is a rare species and endemic to

Palawan Palawan (), officially the Province of Palawan ( cyo, Probinsya i'ang Palawan; tl, Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in t ...

island in the Philippines.

References

* Hayashi, Hisakazu. (1976)
"New species of ''Cyaniriodes libna'', ''Poritia erycinoides'' and ''Panchala paraganesa'' from Palawan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)"
''Tyô to Ga''. 27 (2): 49–51. * * Treadaway, Colin G. & Schrőder, Heinz (2012). "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', Suppl. 20: 1-64. Poritia Lepidoptera of the Philippines Butterflies described in 1976 {{Poritiinae-stub