Hypochlorosis ancharia

Hypochlorosis ancharia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Hypochlorosis
Species:	H. ancharia
Binomial name
Hypochlorosis ancharia (Hewitson, 1869) [1]
Synonyms
Myrina anchariaHewitson, 1869 Pseudonotis humboldtiDruce, 1894

Hypochlorosis ancharia is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Waigeo in Indonesia, and in the Dampier Archipelago in the north of Australia.

Description

Upperside. Male.—Cerulean blue. Anterior wing with the centre grey-white: the costal and outer margins dark brown, widest at the apex. Posterior wing with one tail: the costal margin broadly white: the outer margin dark brown, broad, with a submarginal seriesof black spots encircled with blue. Underside white. Anterior wing with the costal margin and apex rufous-brown: the outer margin with a series of white spots centred and bordered with brown. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly rufous-brown: a submarginal series of conical brown spots bordered with white: the spot at the base of the tail large and black bordered with blue: the lobe black bordered above with blue. Female with the anterior wing white broadly bordered (except on the inner margin) with dark brown: the base and anal angle irrorated with blue. Posterior wing like that of the male, except that the white of the costal margin is broader: the underside does not differ from the male. Exp. 1 and 9/20, inch.

Subspecies

• Hypochlorosis ancharia ancharia (Indonesia: Waigeo)
• Hypochlorosis ancharia tenebrosaRothschild, 1915 (New Guinea: Dampier Island)

References

1. Hypochlorosis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

• D'Abrera, B., 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Melbourne.
• Druce, H. H., 1894. Descriptions of three new Lycaenidae from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)13: 252-255.
• Grünberg, K., 1916. Lycaenidae (in part), pp. 824–849 inSeitz, A. (Ed.) 1927. Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Die Indo-Australischen Tagfalter. Vol. 9. Stuttgart.
• Hewitson, W. C., 1863-1878. Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Text Plates.
• Parsons, M., 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea Academic Press, ISBN   0-12-545555-0