''Sinthusa stephaniae'' 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 ...

. It is found on the Philippine 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 ...

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 ...

Negros Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas, in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region a ...

and

Samar Samar ( ) is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census. It is located in the eastern Visayas, which are in the central Philippines. The island is divided in ...

. ''

Sinthusa mindanensis ''Sinthusa mindanensis'' is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae Species description, first described by Hisakazu Hayashi, Heinz G. Schröder and Colin G. Treadaway in 1978. It is found on the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Leyte. Reference ...

stephaniae'' was raised to species status as ''Sinthusa stephaniae'' by Colin G. Treadaway and Heinz G. Schröder in 2012. The forewing length is 12–15 mm. The habitat of subspecies ''S. s. stephaniae'' and ''S. s. mindanensis'' overlaps on the islands of Mindanao and Leyte.

References

Bibliography

*Hayashi, Hisakazu, Schröder, Heinz & Treadaway, Colin G. (1978)
"New species of ''Rapala'' and ''Sinthusa'' from Mindanao (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)"
''Tyô to Ga''. 29 (4): 215–219. *Treadaway, C. G. (1995). "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 14: 7–118. * *Treadaway, Colin G. & Schröder, Heinz (2012). "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. Suppl. 20: 1-64. Butterflies described in 1978 Sinthusa {{Theclinae-stub