Arhopala hellenore

Doherty's green oakblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. hellenore
Binomial name
Arhopala hellenore Doherty, 1889. [1]
Synonyms
Arhopala viridissimaSwinhoe, 1890 Arhopala eumolphus sanheribFruhstorfer, 1914 Arhopala eumolphus siroesFruhstorfer, 1914

Arhopala hellenore, Doherty's green oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Doherty in 1889. It is found in Southeast Asia - Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan (A. h. hellenore) Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya (A. h. siroes Fruhstorfer, 1914). ^{[2] [3]}

Description

Very similar to Arhopala eumolphus but more pointed and longer wings, and beneath the coffee-brown markings are more intensely prominent in the whitish greyish-brown ground-colour. ^[4]

Subspecies

• Arhopala hellenore hellenore (Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan)
• Arhopala hellenore siroesFruhstorfer, 1914 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)- the male has such a narrow dark margin of the wings, that it is hardly yet recognisable in the apex of the forewing. Beneath the markings are particularly dark and surrounded by a bright white colour.

References

1. Doherty, W., 1889. On certain Lycaenidae from Lower Tenasserim. J. asiat. Soc. Beng. 58(4): 409–440, 2 pls.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
3. 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
4. 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 .

External links

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