Arhopala epimete

Violetdisc oakblue
	From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. epimete
Binomial name
	Arhopala epimete; (Staudinger, 1889)
Synonyms
	Amblypodia epimete Staudinger, 1889 ; Arhopala duessa Doherty, 1889 ; Arhopala suedas Corbet, 1941 ;

Arhopala epimete, the violetdisc oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Otto Staudinger in 1889.^[2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Borneo, Palawan, Burma, Mergui, Langkawi, Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra).^[3]^[4]

Description

Has a lustrous blue forewing with a broad dark costal margin and distal margin, the hindwing being blackish-brown, in the male with hardly any blue, in the female without blue. Beneath somewhat like acron. duessa Doh., from Tenasserim, is beneath almost the same, but above the blue gloss on the forewing is more glaring.^[5]

Subspecies

Arhopala epimete epimete (Borneo, Palawan)
Arhopala epimete duessa Doherty, 1889 (southern Burma, Mergui, Langkawi)
Arhopala epimete suedas Corbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly Sumatra)
Arhopala epimete magindana Osada, 1987 (Philippines: north-eastern Mindanao)

References

^ Staudinger, O., 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift (Iris) 2(1): 3-180, pls. 1, 2.
^ Savela, Markku. "Arhopala epimete (Staudinger, 1889)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
^ Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur
^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Staudinger, O., 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift (Iris) 2(1): 3-180, pls. 1, 2.

[2] Savela, Markku. "Arhopala epimete (Staudinger, 1889)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 24, 2019.

[3] Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175

[4] Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur

[5] Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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