Arhopala epimete

Violetdisc oakblue
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. epimete
Binomial name
Arhopala epimete (Staudinger, 1889) [1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia epimeteStaudinger, 1889 Arhopala duessaDoherty, 1889 Arhopala suedasCorbet, 1941

Arhopala epimete, the violetdisc oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Otto Staudinger in 1889. ^[2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Borneo, Palawan, Burma, Mergui, Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra). ^{[3] [4]}

Description

Has a lustrous blue forewing with a broad dark costal margin and distal margin, the hindwing being blackish-brown, in the male with hardly any blue, in the female without blue. Beneath somewhat like acron . duessa Doh., from Tenasserim, is beneath almost the same, but above the blue gloss on the forewing is more glaring. ^[5]

Subspecies

• Arhopala epimete epimete (Borneo, Palawan)
• Arhopala epimete duessaDoherty, 1889 (southern Burma, Mergui, Langkawi)
• Arhopala epimete suedasCorbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly Sumatra)
• Arhopala epimete magindanaOsada, 1987 (Philippines: north-eastern Mindanao)

References

1. Staudinger, O., 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift (Iris) 2(1): 3-180, pls. 1, 2.
2. Savela, Markku. "Arhopala epimete (Staudinger, 1889)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
4. Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur
5. 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 .