Arhopala araxes

Arhopala araxes is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Arhopala araxes
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. araxes
Binomial name
Arhopala araxes
C. & R.Felder, [1865] [1]


Description

A. araxes is of the size of A.amantes which the under surface resembles, though the postmedian transverse band of the forewing is not distinctly interrupted behind the cell.The upper surface of the male shows almost the deep dark blue colour of the continental forms of A. centaurus, butthe whole proximal parts of both wings are of a bright light blue ( morpho-blue). In the female the upper surface is dark brown, the forewing with a medium-sized, the hindwing with a larger light blue discal spot, which in the forewing extends to the centre of the wing, in the hindwing a little beyond it. [3]


Subspecies
  • A. a. araxes Sulawesi, Sula, Sanghie
  • A. a. onetor Fruhstorfer, 1914 Sumatra, Java, Sumbawa, Sumba, Savu, Timor, Kissar, Wetar, Leti - more lustrous blue. The female has a broader hindwing margin, and the under surface is darker brown, the red-brown bands not so distinctly bordered with white
  • A. a. talauta (Evans, 1957) Talaut Group
  • A. a. verelius Fruhstorfer, 1914

References
  1. .C. & R. Felder, [1865] '1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls.
  2. D'Abrera, B. 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne.
  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.
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