Flos areste

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Tailless plushblue
Close wing position of Male Flos areste Hewitson, 1862 - Tailless Plushblue DSC 5762.jpg
Flos areste ventral
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Flos areste
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Flos
Species:
F. areste
Binomial name
Flos areste
(Hewitson, 1862) [1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia aresteHewitson, 1862

Flos areste, the tailless plushblue, [2] [3] is a small butterfly found in the Indomalayan region that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

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Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim to Assam and the northern and southern Shan states Burma, Thailand to Peninsular Malaya and China (Chekiang, Guangdong). [4] [5]

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that the species was rare. [4]

Cited references

  1. Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amblypodia areste". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  3. "Flos areste (Hewitson, 1862)" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  4. 1 2 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 272, ser no H49.79.
  5. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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