Arhopala alesia

Pallid oakblue
Arhopala alesia mio, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. alesia
Binomial name
Arhopala alesia (C. & R. Felder [ verification needed ], [1865])
Synonyms
Amblypodia alesiaC. & R. Felder[ verification needed ], [1865]

Arhopala alesia, the pallid oakblue, (sometimes in Amblypodia ) ^[1] is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description

The forewing length is about 18mm.Beneath quite similar to oberthuri , but with a long tail on the hindwing. The female is above light greenish-blue. ^[2]

Subspecies

At least 5 subspecies are listed: ^[3]

• A. a. alesia
• A. a. wimberleyi(de Nicéville, 1887)
• A. a. sacharjaFruhstorfer, 1914
• A. a. mio(Hayashi, 1981)
• A. a. soloniM. & T. Okano, 1995

Range

The butterfly occurs in India in the Andamans and from Dawnas to southern Myanmar. ^[4]

The nominotypical subspecies is distributed on Bohol, Luzon, Marinduque, Mindoro, Mindanao & Tawitawi Islands. The subspecies soloni is on Leyte Island. The subspecies mio is found on Negros Island.

Status

William Harry Evans described the species as rare in 1932. ^[4]

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

Cited references

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Amblypodia alesia​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
2. 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 .
3. Savela, Markku. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
4. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 266, ser no H49.49.

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 15 October 2016.
• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Treadaway, Colin G., 1955: "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands". Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 14: 7–118.
• Treadaway, Colin G. & Schrőder, Heinz G., 2012: "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN   978-8170192329.