''Tajuria matsutaroi motokoae'' is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a

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Tajuria matsutaroi ''Tajuria matsutaroi'' is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae first described by Hisakazu Hayashi in 1984. It is endemic to the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Leyte. Forewing length is about 16–19 mm. The butterfly is a rare spe ...

''. This subspecies is rarely found on Leyte island in the Philippines. Its forewing length is 16–19 mm. Subspecies ''motokoae'' is distinguishable from the nominotypical subspecies by the following characters of the upperside: 1) ground colour is decidedly darker and clearly tinged with purple, while only slightly tinged with pale purple in subspecies ''matsutaroi'', 2) black border is broader in spaces 1b, 2 and the upper part of the cell on the forewing, 3) in the female, the upperside costal area is blackish, whereas it is whitish in subspecies ''matsutaroi''.

References

*, 1984: A New ''Tajuria'' (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Mindanao. ''Tyô to Ga''. 34(3): 127-129

*, 2011: A new subspecies of ''Tajuria matsutaroi'' (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Lyte Is., the Philippines. ''Tyô to Ga''. 62(1): 33-3

*,2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands. ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', Suppl. 20: 1-64. Butterflies described in 1984 Tajuria Butterfly subspecies {{Lycaenidae-stub