Arhopala amphimuta

Arhopala amphimuta is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1860. It is found in Southeast Asia - Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Bangka, the Philippines (A. a. amphimuta), Thailand, Mergui, Burma, Langkawi, Penang (A. a. milleriana Corbet, 1941) and Java (A. a. quadra (Evans, 1957)).

Arhopala amphimuta
Arhopala amphimuta milleriana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. amphimuta
Binomial name
Arhopala amphimuta (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860)[1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia amphimuta C. & R. Felder, 1860 Arhopala asia de Nicéville, [1893] Arhopala milleriana Corbet, 1941 Narathura amphimuta quadra Evans, 1957

Male both wings soft violet, with a brownish shade in side-lights. Forewing costa and outer margin very narrowly brown ; hindwings with broad brown costa and very narrow outer margins. Underside clear ochreous brown with slightly darker spots palely encircled.At the anal angle is a very large blackish spot extending into the next nervule space and well covered with a bright pale blue metallic spot, of which there is a slight trace in the second median nervule space.

Beneath very similar to Arhopala rafflesii But it differs from it in the entire absence of the small tail on the hindwing. The male is above also darker, of a darker violettish-brown. [2]