Arhopala arvina

Purple-brown tailless oakblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. arvina
Binomial name
Arhopala arvina (Hewitson, 1869) [1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia arvinaHewitson, 1863 Amblypodia arvina ardeaEvans, 1932 Arhopala aboede Nicéville, 1895 Arhopala adalade Nicéville, 1895 Arhopala adulansde Nicéville, 1895 Arhopala adalitasCorbet, 1941

Arhopala arvina, the purple-brown tailless oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1869. It is found in Southeast Asia (Java, Assam, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo). ^{[2] [3]}

Description

Hindwing quite oval, without small tails. Upper surface in the male lustrous dark ultramarine with a black margin of about 1.5 mm with; female light blue with a marginal band of 4 to 5 mm width. Under surface very characteristic, quite dark violettish-brown, the anal region of the forewing lighter, but not so white as in our figure. In the forewing there are mostly also in and below the cell oval ring-spots which, however, are hardly visible owing to the dark ground-colour. ^[4]

Subspecies

• Arhopala arvina arvina (Java)
• Arhopala arvina ardea(Evans, 1932) (Assam)
• Arhopala arvina aboede Nicéville, 1895 (southern Burma, Mergui, southern Thailand)
• Arhopala arvina adalitasCorbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo)

References

1. Hewitson, W. C., 1863–1878. Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls.
2. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
4. 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 .