Arhopala aurea

Arhopala aurea is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.[2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Peninsular Malaya, Singapore and Sumatra).[3]

male figured in Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum

Arhopala aurea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. aurea
Binomial name
Arhopala aurea
(Hewitson, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia aurea Hewitson, 1862

Description

Male of a very bright greenish golden colour, on the hindwing with a sharply defined black marginal band extending to the centre of the wing, whereas the forewing only exhibits at the anal angle slight traces of the marginal black which attains a width of hardly 1 mm. The marking beneath deviates from the forms of eumolphus by the narrower, more regularly shaped postmedian band of both wings. [4]

References
  1. Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
  2. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
  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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