Arhopala annulata

Arhopala annulata
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. annulata
Binomial name
Arhopala annulata (Felder, 1860) [1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia annulataFelder, 1860 Amblypodia tristisRöber, 1887 Amblypodia erebinaStaudinger, 1889 Narathura schroederiHayashi, 1981

Arhopala annulata is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder in 1860. It is found in the Australasian realm (Buru, Ambon) and in the Indomalayan realm (Palawan). ^[2]

Description

annulata approximates viola in size and under surface, but above it is brown, the male with some blue scaling hardly extending to the centre of the wing. The female is above somewhat bluer, but likewise with a very broad black marginal band. Beneath the chains of spots are somewhat more irregular.- tristis Rob., from Bangkei, is above particularly scantily irrorated with blue, but Bethune-Baker states that this irroration disappears, if the insect flies for a long time, which fact would not speak in favour of separating a Bangkei-race as a geographical form. ^[3]

References

1. Felder, 1860 Lepidopterorum Amboienensium species novae diagnosibus Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40 (11): 448-462
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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 .

External links

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