Arhopala chamaeleona

Arhopala chamaeleona is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. It is found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.[2]

Arhopala chamaeleona mizunumai, ♂

Arhopala chamaeleona
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. chamaeleona
Binomial name
Arhopala chamaeleona
Synonyms
  • Arhopala elagabulus Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Arhopala restricta Rothschild, 1916
  • Arhopala heliogabulus Seitz, 1926
  • Narathura maputi Takanami, 1984
  • Narathura mizunumai H. Hayashi, 1978
  • Arhopala rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922

Description

Both wings deep metallic green, shading to brown in some lights.Hindwing being green almost to the margin. Below, uniform brown, no white areas: hindwing under with well-developed tornal metallic scaling.[3][4] [5] Form restricta Above, brown-black, forewings violet-blue on basal 3/4 }}



Subspecies
  • A. c. chamaeleona (Biak, Noemfoor, Jobi, New Guinea)
  • A. c. rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Serang)
  • A. c. mizunumai (Hayashi, 1978) (Philippines: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Marinduque)
  • A. c. maputi (Takanami, 1984) (Philippines: Marinduque)
  • A. c. susyae Tennent & Rawlins, 2010 (Moluccas)

References
  1. Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. A new species of Arhopala from British New Guinea. Ent. mon. Mag. 39: 217.
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  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. Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. A new species of Arhopala from British New Guinea. Ent. mon. Mag. 39: 217.
  5. D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.
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