Arhopala atosia

Arhopala atosia is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1869.[2] It is found in Southeast Asia - Borneo, Sumatra, Bangka, Pulau Laut (A. a. atosia), Thailand, Indochina, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore (A. a. malayana Bethune-Baker, 1903), Burma (A. a. aria (Evans, 1932)), Langkawi, Mergui (A. a. jahara Corbet, 1941) and Palawan (A. a. aricia (Staudinger, 1889)).[3]

Arhopala atosia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. atosia
Binomial name
Arhopala atosia
(Hewitson, 1869)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia atosia Hewitson, 1863
  • Arhopala malayana Bethune-Baker, 1903
  • Arhopala udapa Corbet, 1941
  • Amblypodia atosia aria Evans, 1932
  • Arhopala jahara Corbet, 1941
  • Amblypodia aritcia Staudinger, 1889

Above the male is not lilac, but mostly dark blue with a very feeble violet tint, although also more intensely lilac-tinged specimens have been ascertained. Beneath very similar to pseudomuta, but in the female the postdiscal band of the hindwing is more irregular, and the 4th spot of the postmedian band of the forewing still more distally removed. The female has a black distal margin of about 3 mm width. [4]


Subspecies
  • Arhopala atosia atosia (Borneo, Sumatra, Bangka, Pulau Laut)
  • Arhopala atosia malayana Bethune-Baker, 1903 (Thailand, Indo-China, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore)
  • Arhopala atosia aria (Evans, 1932) (Burma)
  • Arhopala atosia jahara Corbet, 1941 (Langkawi, Mergui)
  • Arhopala atosia aricia (Staudinger, 1889) (Palawan)

References
  1. Hewitson, W. C., 1863–1878. Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls.
  2. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  3. Evans, W. H., 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology [ISSN], 5(3): 85–141
  4. 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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