Poritia plateni

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Poritia plateni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Poritia
Species:
P. plateni
Binomial name
Poritia plateni
Staudinger, 1889

Poritia plateni is an Indomalayan butterfly found on Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Thailand and in the Philippines that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. [1] Above the male is somewhat like sumatrae (154 h), but beneath both wings are white with a rusty-red distal margin and all over covered with black dots [2]

References

  1. Poritia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.