Arhopala eumolphus
Appearance
Green oakblue | |
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Arhopala eumolphus maxwelli, male (top) and female | |
Arhopala eumolphus eumolphus Courvoisier Collection, Basel | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Arhopala |
Species: | A. eumolphus
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Binomial name | |
Arhopala eumolphus (Cramer, [1780])
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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
External links
- Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
Wikispecies has information related to Arhopala eumolphus.
- Asahi Correctly determined photos of A. eumolphus from the Philippines
Cited references