| Banded blue Pierrot | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Discolampa |
| Species: | D. ethion |
| Binomial name | |
| Discolampa ethion (Westwood, 1851) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Discolampa ethion, the banded blue Pierrot, [1] [2] is a contrastingly marked butterfly found in South Asia [3] that belongs to the blues or family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by John O. Westwood in 1851.
The following description is taken from Charles Thomas Bingham Fauna of British India: Butterflies Volume II (1907).
The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka, South India, [3] Sikkim to Assam, and onto Myanmar. Also in the southern Andaman Islands and Nicobar islands. In South East Asia, the butterfly is found in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Hainan, Malayan peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, Palawan, Nias, Sumbawa, Anambas Islands, and Sulawesi. [1]
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Bingham, Charles Thomas (1907). Fauna of British India: Butterflies Volume II. pp. 426–427. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 241–243. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Davidson, J.; Bell, T R; Aitken, E H (1896). The butterflies of the North Canara District of the Bombay Presidency. II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Vol. 10. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 380, 392a.
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