Arhopala hellenore

Arhopala hellenore
	Arhopala hellenore
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. hellenore
Binomial name
	Arhopala hellenore; Doherty, 1889.[1]
Synonyms
	Arhopala viridissima Swinhoe, 1890; Arhopala eumolphus sanherib Fruhstorfer, 1914; Arhopala eumolphus siroes Fruhstorfer, 1914;

Arhopala hellenore, Doherty's green oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Doherty in 1889. It is found in Southeast Asia - Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan (A. h. hellenore) Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya (A. h. siroes Fruhstorfer, 1914).[2][3]

Subspecies

Arhopala hellenore hellenore (Assam, Manipur, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Indo China, Hainan)
Arhopala hellenore siroes Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)

References

Doherty, W., 1889. On certain Lycaenidae from Lower Tenasserim. J. asiat. Soc. Beng. 58(4): 409–440, 2 pls.
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

External links

"Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] Doherty, W., 1889. On certain Lycaenidae from Lower Tenasserim. J. asiat. Soc. Beng. 58(4): 409–440, 2 pls.

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

[3] 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