''Rachana mioae'' 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 ...

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 butterfl ...

first described by Hisakazu Hayashi in 1978. ''Eliotia mioae'' H. Hayashi, 1978 was moved to ''Rachana'', because ''Eliotia'' is the

junior homonym In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon. The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the se ...

of a genus of marine animals (nudibranchs, family:

Madrellidae Madrellidae is a family of nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the clade Nudipleura Nudipleura are a clade of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia. Taxonomy 2005 taxonomy In the ...

) described in 1909. Forewing length: 16–20 mm. It is endemic to the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. It is uncommon and distributed on the islands of

Mindanao Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...

and

Leyte Leyte ( ) is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. It is eighth-largest and sixth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 2,626,970 as of 2020 census. Since the accessibility of land has be ...

References

*Hayashi, Hisakazu (1978)
"Lycaenid Butterflies from Mindanao, with the descriptions of new Genus, new Species and new Subspecies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)"
''Tyô to Ga''. 29 (3): 164-168. *Treadaway, Colin G. (1995). "Checklisit of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 14: 7–118. * *Treadaway, Colin G. & Schröder, Heinz G. (2012). "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 20: 1-64.

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With images. Butterflies described in 1984 Iolaini {{Theclinae-stub