Arhopala admete
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| From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. admete
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Arhopala admete is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in the Australasian realm,[2]
Description
[edit]Beneath all the bands and spots are edged with a bright white on a red-brown ground. Recognizable by all the spots in the forewing being absent as far as the postmedian transverse band, except the cell-end spot; in the hindwing all the spots are very small. Above the male is deep dark blue, the female black, the basal halves of the wings with a blue gloss.[3]
Subspecies
[edit]- A. a. admete Serang, Obi, Bachan, Halmahera
- A. a. eucolpis (Kirsch, 1877) Waigeu, Misool, Jobi, West Irian - Papua, Goodenough, Yela, Tagula
- A. a. sudesta (Evans, 1957)Tagula, Yela
References
[edit]- ^ Hewitson, 1863; Hewitson, 1869 Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae
- ^ D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.
- ^ Adalbert Seitz in Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
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External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Arhopala eucolpis.
Wikispecies has information related to Arhopala admete.
- Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
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