Flos areste

Flos areste, the tailless plushblue,[2][3] is a small butterfly found in the Indomalayan region that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Tailless plushblue
Flos areste ventral
Flos areste
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F. areste
Binomial name
Flos areste
(Hewitson, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia areste Hewitson, 1862

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim to Assam and the northern and southern Shan states Burma, Thailand to Peninsular Malaya and China (Chekiang, Guangdong). [4] [5]

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that the species was rare.[4]

Cited references

  1. Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amblypodia areste". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  3. "Flos areste (Hewitson, 1862)" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  4. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 272, ser no H49.79.
  5. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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