Arhopala eumolphus

Green oakblue
Arhopala eumolphus maxwelli,
male (top) and female
Arhopala eumolphus eumolphus Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Arhopala
Species: A. eumolphus
Binomial name
Arhopala eumolphus
(Cramer, [1780])

Arhopala eumolphus, the green oakblue, is a lycaenid butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.

Range

The butterfly is mostly seen in India, ranging from West Bengal, Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, and is also found in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.[1]

Subspecies

  • A. e. eumolphus Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Thailand, Hainan
  • A. e. maxwelli (Distant, 1885) Mergui, Burma, S.Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Bangka
  • A. e. adonias (Hewitson, 1862) Java
  • A. e. caesarion Fruhstorfer, 1914 Sumatra
  • A. e. aristomachus Fruhstorfer, 1914 Palawan
  • Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.

Cited references

  1. Isaac Kehimkar (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies, Bombay Natural History Society, Oxford University press, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai


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