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
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

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


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