Violetdisc oakblue | |
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From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Arhopala |
Species: | A. epimete
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Binomial name | |
Arhopala epimete (
Staudinger, 1889)
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Synonyms | |
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Arhopala epimete, the violetdisc oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Otto Staudinger in 1889. [2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Borneo, Palawan, Burma, Mergui, Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra). [3] [4]
Has a lustrous blue forewing with a broad dark costal margin and distal margin, the hindwing being blackish-brown, in the male with hardly any blue, in the female without blue. Beneath somewhat like acron. duessa Doh., from Tenasserim, is beneath almost the same, but above the blue gloss on the forewing is more glaring. [5]
Violetdisc oakblue | |
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From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Arhopala |
Species: | A. epimete
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Binomial name | |
Arhopala epimete (
Staudinger, 1889)
[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Arhopala epimete, the violetdisc oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Otto Staudinger in 1889. [2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Borneo, Palawan, Burma, Mergui, Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra). [3] [4]
Has a lustrous blue forewing with a broad dark costal margin and distal margin, the hindwing being blackish-brown, in the male with hardly any blue, in the female without blue. Beneath somewhat like acron. duessa Doh., from Tenasserim, is beneath almost the same, but above the blue gloss on the forewing is more glaring. [5]