Arhopala aedias yendava

Singapore oakblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. aedias
Subspecies:	A. a. yendava
Trinomial name
	Arhopala aedias yendava; (Grose-Smith, 1887)
Synonyms
	Amblypodia yendava Grose-Smith, 1887;

Arhopala aedias yendava, the Singapore oakblue,[1][2] is a subspecies of small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim onto Myanmar.[1][3]

Rare.[3]

Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Amblypodia.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amblypodia yendava". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 261, ser no H49.22.

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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