Flos chinensis

Flos chinensis
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Flos
Species:	F. chinensis
Binomial name
Flos chinensis (C. Felder & R. Felder, [1865]) [1]
Synonyms
Arhopala chinensisC. & R. Felder, [1865] Nilasera moelleride Nicéville, 1883 Satadra lazulaMoore, 1884 Arhopala asoka vayaFruhstorfer, 1914

Flos chinensis, the Chinese plushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, southwest China to Shanghai).Hindwing tail short(1mm). Underside of hindwing with metallic scaling at tornus.Male shining dark blue, border 1 mm. at apex, 4 mm. elsewhere.Male forewing 22 mm.Female purple with broad borders.Seitz 150e. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. C. & R. Felder, [1865] Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara
2. Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141
3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• "Flos Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms