''Poritia phama'' is a small butterfly 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 ...

that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by

Hamilton Herbert Druce Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (1869 – 21 June 1922) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lycaenidae and to a lesser extent Hesperiidae. He is not to be confused with his father, the English entomologist Herbert Druce (1846– ...

in 1895.

Subspecies

*'' P. p. phama'' Borneo, Sumatra, Java *''P. p. geta'' Fawcett, 1897 Pakistan, Assam - Myanmar, Thailand *''P. p. courvoisieri'' Fruhstorfer, 1917 East Java *''P. p. regia'' Evans, 1921 Langkawi Island, South Thailand *''P. p. rajata'' Corbet, 1940 *''P. p. palawana'' Osada, 1994 Philippines, Palawan, Olanguan

References

Poritia Fauna of Pakistan Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1895 {{Poritiinae-stub