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is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in the

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Range

The butterfly occurs in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

from

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, the Khasi Hills, eastwards and across to north and south

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Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

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

Nias Nias ( id, Pulau Nias, Nias language: ''Tanö Niha'') (sometimes called Little Sumatra in English) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago () of which the island is the centre, ...

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Subspecies

*''P. i. icetoides'' North India, Burma, North Thailand, Assam, Burma *''P. i. cretheus'' (de Nicéville, 1895) Sumatra, W.Java *''P. i. carmentalis'' (de Nicéville,

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Khasia Hills *''P. i. yasa'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Nias *''P. i. ecphanathus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) East Java *''P. i. calculis'' Druce, 1895 South Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Borneo *''P. i. marikit Schröder & Treadaway, 1986 Philippines, Palawan

Taxonomy

The butterfly was previously classified as ''Camena icetoides'' and ''Ancema icetoides''. Retrieved April 23, 2018.

Status

William Harry Evans in 1932 and Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth in 1957 both describe the species as not being rare.

Description

The butterfly has a wingspan of 30 to 32 mm. The male white-banded royal above is a shining bright blue up to base of 4 in the forewing. On the hindwing is a mid-costal white patch. The male has a large but inconspicuous brand on the upperside of the hindwing. The female is a pale dull powdery blue with a broad black border on both wings. The underside is pale brown with no bars end cell. The forewing has an outwardly white-edged discal line curved inwards.

Cited references

References

* * * * * * Yutaka Inayoshi, ''A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China'', page o
Family Lycaenidae
(accessed 7 August 2007). Pratapa Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies described in 1892 {{Lycaenidae-stub