Arhopala admete

Arhopala admete
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. admete
Binomial name
Arhopala admete (Hewitson, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia admeteHewitson, [1863]

Arhopala admete is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in the Australasian realm. ^[2]

Description

Beneath all the bands and spots are edged with a bright white on a red-brown ground. Recognizable by all the spots in the forewing being absent as far as the postmedian transverse band, except the cell-end spot; in the hindwing all the spots are very small. Above the male is deep dark blue, the female black, the basal halves of the wings with a blue gloss. ^[3]

Subspecies

• A. a. admete Serang, Obi, Bachan, Halmahera
• A. a. eucolpis (Kirsch, 1877) Waigeu, Misool, Jobi, West Irian - Papua, Goodenough, Yela, Tagula
• A. a. sudesta (Evans, 1957)Tagula, Yela

References

1. Hewitson, 1863; Hewitson, 1869 Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae
2. D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.
3. Adalbert Seitz in Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.