Arhopala camdeo

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Arhopala camdeo
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From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. camdeo
Binomial name
Arhopala camdeo
(Moore, [1858]) [1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia camdeoMoore, 1857
  • Amblypodia camdeo sebongaTytler, 1926

Arhopala camdeo, the lilac oakblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1858. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim to Assam, Bhutan, Manipur, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam).

Contents

Easily recognised by the colouring above; the male is very light sky-blue, with a large white discal spot. Wings of female broadly and irregularly margined. Beneath all the transverse bands are broken up into rows of ring-spots. [2]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Moore, [1858] A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company in Horsfield & Moore, 1: : 1-278, pl. 1-12,1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a
  2. Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .