| Poritia plateni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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]