Arhopala birmana

Arhopala birmana, the Burmese bushblue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.

Burmese bushblue
Acesina arisba = Arhopala birmana, male, from original description by de Niceville, 1891.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. birmana
Binomial name
Arhopala birmana
(Moore, 1883) [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acesina arisba (Moore, 1884)
  • Panchala birmana Moore, 1884
  • Acesina arisba de Nicéville, 1891

The easternmost form of this species: corthata Fruhst. flying in Hongkong is presumably very closely allied to ariel. In corthata the upper surface of the male is dark, but intensely bluish-violet. Easily separable from typical birmana by the hindwing in which the dark marginal band is analwards narrower. - In typical birmana Mr. (= arisba Nic.) the postmedian band on the forewing beneath is still coherent, whereas in the larger form aberrans Nic. [ now species Arhopala aberrans (de Nicéville, [1889]) ] it is interrupted in the centre. In this form from Tenasserim the female has also much more white in the disc of the forewing above. The male of all the forms are above violettish-blue with a broader or narrower black margin.[3]

Subspecies
  • A. b. birmana Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong
  • A. b. asakurae (Matsumura, 1910) Taiwan
  • A. b. hiurai (Hayashi, 1976) Palawan (Philippines)

References
  1. "The Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 2014-06-02. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  2. Moore, F. [1884]. Descriptions of new Asiatic diurnal Lepidoptera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1883(4): 521–535, 2 pls
  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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