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Arhopala aedias yendava

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Singapore oakblue
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
Subspecies:
A. a. yendava
Trinomial name
Arhopala aedias yendava
(Grose-Smith, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia yendava Grose-Smith, 1887

Arhopala aedias yendava, the Singapore oakblue,[1][2] is a subspecies of Arhopala aedias a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

This beautiful species is above in both sexes dark lilac, the female with a black distal margin of an average width of 4 mm. The postmedian band of the forewdng is here also in the centre very much interrupted, but the two ends of the interruption are nevertheless contiguous, which is not the case in nominate aedias.[3]

Range

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The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim onto Myanmar.[1][4]

Status

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Rare.[4]

See also

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Cited references

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  1. ^ a b Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Amblypodia.
  2. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Amblypodia yendava​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
  3. ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 261, ser no H49.22.

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