Arhopala cleander

Arhopala cleander is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family. It was described by Cajetan Felder in 1860.[2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Buru, Ambon, Serang, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Sulawesi, Banggai and Selajar).[3][4]

Arhopala cleander
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. cleander
Binomial name
Arhopala cleander
(C. Felder, 1860)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia cleander Felder, 1860
  • Amblypodia adatha Hewitson, 1862
  • Arhopala aphadantas Corbet, 1941
  • Amblypodia cleander regia Evans, [1925]
  • Arhopala adatha sostrata Fruhstorfer, 1914

Subspecies
  • Arhopala cleander cleander (Buru, Ambon, Serang)
  • Arhopala cleander incerta Moulton, 1911 (Borneo, Sumatra)
  • Arhopala cleander aphadantas Corbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Arhopala cleander regia (Evans, [1925]) (southern Burma, Thailand)
  • Arhopala cleander apharida Corbet, 1941 (Lombok, Java)
  • Arhopala cleander sostrata Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Sulawesi, Banggai, Selajar)

References
  1. Felder, C. 1860. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium species novae diagnosibus. S-B. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 40(11): 447–468.
  2. "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  3. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
  4. Evans, W. H., 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology [ISSN], 5(3): 85–141
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