Arhopala muta

Arhopala muta
Arhopala muta Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. muta
Binomial name
Arhopala muta (Hewitson, 1862) [1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia mutaHewitson, 1862 Arhopala trimaCorbet, 1941 Arhopala marandaCorbet, 1941 Arhopala wallaceiCorbet, 1941 Arhopala waterstradtiBethune-Baker, 1896 Arhopala merguianaCorbet, 1941 Narathura muta gloriaEvans, 1957

Arhopala muta (mutal oakblue) is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. It is found in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Mergui, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Java, Sumatra, Borneo) ^[2]

A small species with a darker tint and violet reflection in the distal portion of the forewing, which slightly contrasts with the lighter blue hindwing, though by no means so much as in metamuta which besides shows a black distal margin on both wings (also in the male ).The under surface is dark brown, very scantily marked. ^[3]

Subspecies

• Arhopala muta muta (Java)
• Arhopala muta trimaCorbet, 1941 (Sumatra)
• Arhopala muta marandaCorbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand)
• Arhopala muta wallaceiCorbet, 1941 (Sumatra)
• Arhopala muta waterstradtiBethune-Baker, 1896 (Borneo)
• Arhopala muta merguianaCorbet, 1941 (Thailand, Burma, Mergui)
• Arhopala muta gloria(Evans, 1957) (Nias)

References

1. Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
2. 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
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 .

External links

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