''Simiskina pediada'' 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 is found from southern

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

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, ...

and

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 ...

References

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*, 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond''. 90: 337–350, 1 pl., 21 figs. *, 1969. More revisional notes on oriental butterflies. ''Entomologist'' 102: 269–278, 8 figs., 1 pl. *, 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula''. 4th Edn. Kuala Lumpur. *, 1877. Notes on Mr. Buxton's eastern butterflies, with description of a new species of ''Poritia'' ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' 13''
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*, 1863–1878. ''Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae''
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London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp. etc Butterflies described in 1877 Simiskina Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson Butterflies of Asia {{Poritiinae-stub