Arhopala camdeo

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Arhopala camdeo
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From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
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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).

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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

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 .