Ancema ctesia

Bi-spot royal
	Male, upperside left, underside right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Ancema
Species:	A. ctesia
Binomial name
	Ancema ctesia; (Hewitson, 1865)
Synonyms
	Camena ctesia Hewitson, 1865; Dacalana ctesia; Camema ctesia agalla Fruhstorfer, 1912; Camena ctesia cakravasti Fruhstorfer, 1909; Camena ctesia cakravasti Fruhstorfer, 1909;

Ancema ctesia, the bi-spot royal, is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Pakistan and India.

The larvae feed on Viscum articulatum.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:^[1]

Ancema ctesia ctesia (Sikkim, Assam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, possibly Bhutan and Burma)
Ancema ctesia agalla (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (Thailand, Laos, southern Yunnan, Sichuan)
Ancema ctesia cakravasti (Fruhstorfer, 1909) (Taiwan)

male Thailand
male India Courvoisier collection
Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera Plate 20

References

^ ^a ^b Ancema at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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Ancema ctesia- is two tail under silver grey,bar at the end of cell in central band of black spots on under hind male shining blue black spot on inner edge another in upper forward central area female upper pale purple blue on black spot on upper

[funet-1] Ancema at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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