Arhopala chamaeleona

Arhopala chamaeleona
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. chamaeleona
Binomial name
Arhopala chamaeleona Bethune-Baker, 1903 [1]
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]

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

• A. c. chamaeleona (Biak, Noemfoor, Jobi, New Guinea)
• A. c. rileyiJoicey & Talbot, 1922 (Serang)
• A. c. mizunumai(Hayashi, 1978) (Philippines: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Marinduque)
• A. c. maputi(Takanami, 1984) (Philippines: Marinduque)
• A. c. susyaeTennent & Rawlins, 2010 (Moluccas)

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 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.

External links

• "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms