Arhopala chamaeleona

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Arhopala chamaeleona
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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. chamaeleona
Binomial name
Arhopala chamaeleona
Synonyms
  • Arhopala elagabulusFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Arhopala restrictaRothschild, 1916
  • Arhopala heliogabulusSeitz, 1926
  • Narathura maputiTakanami, 1984
  • Narathura mizunumaiH. Hayashi, 1978
  • Arhopala rileyiJoicey & Talbot, 1922

Arhopala chamaeleona is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. It is found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. [2]

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Arhopala chamaeleona mizunumai, ♂

Description

Both wings deep metallic green, shading to brown in some lights.Hindwing being green almost to the margin. Below, uniform brown, no white areas: hindwing under with well-developed tornal metallic scaling. [3] [4] [5] Form restricta Above, brown-black, forewings violet-blue on basal 3/4 }}

Subspecies

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References

  1. ↑ Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. A new species of Arhopala from British New Guinea. Ent. mon. Mag. 39: 217.
  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 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. A new species of Arhopala from British New Guinea. Ent. mon. Mag. 39: 217.
  5. ↑ D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.


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