Arhopala aedias yendava

Singapore oakblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. aedias
Subspecies:	A. a. yendava
Trinomial name
Arhopala aedias yendava (Grose-Smith, 1887)
Synonyms
Amblypodia yendavaGrose-Smith, 1887

Arhopala aedias yendava, the Singapore oakblue, ^{[1] [2]} is a subspecies of Arhopala aedias a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

This beautiful species is above in both sexes dark lilac, the female with a black distal margin of an average width of 4 mm. The postmedian band of the forewdng is here also in the centre very much interrupted, but the two ends of the interruption are nevertheless contiguous, which is not the case in nominate aedias. ^[3]

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim onto Myanmar. ^{[1] [4]}

Status

Rare. ^[4]

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

Cited references

1. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Amblypodia.
2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Amblypodia yendava​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
3. 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 .
4. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 261, ser no H49.22.

References

• Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN   978-8170192329.