Arhopala alesia

Pallid oakblue
	Arhopala alesia mio, female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]

Last updated April 20, 2024

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]

Cited references

↑ 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.
↑ 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 .
↑ Savela, Markku. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 266, ser no H49.49.

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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.

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[LepIndex_alesia-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.

[Evans-4] 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 266, ser no H49.49.

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