Arhopala nobilis

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Arhopala nobilis
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Arhopala nobilis Courvoisier Collection, Basel
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. nobilis
Binomial name
Arhopala nobilis
(Felder, 1860) [1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia nobilisC. Felder, 1860
  • Amblypodia alceHewitson, 1862
  • Arhopala nobilis ajusaFruhstorfer, [1914]
  • Arhopala nobilis atharaGrose-Smith, 1902
  • Amblypodia caelestisRöber, 1931
  • Arhopala bosnikianaJoicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Arhopala nobilis nobiliorFruhstorfer, [1914]

Arhopala nobilis is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder in 1860. It is found in the Australasian realm [2]

Description

A. nobilis Fldr is a large beautiful form with a very bright ultramarine (male) or cyanid blue (female) upper surface, the male being narrowly, the female broadly margined with black. Easily recognisable by the postmedian band on the forewing beneath exhibiting two of the spots behind the cell-end pushed out of the chain towards the margin. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Felder, C. 1860 Lepidopterorum Amboienensium species novae diagnosibus Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40 (11): 448-462
  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 .