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Arhopala singla

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Arhopala singla
Arhopala singla, female, male, Sikkim, from original description.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. singla
Binomial name
Arhopala singla

Arhopala singla, the pointed oakblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville in 1885. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Northwest India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, and Southwest China).[2]

Description

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Very closely allied to bazalus, beneath almost the same, but the forewing of the male exhibits a black cell-end spot and behind it another dentiform spot projecting into the blue disc. The female has in the forewing a large violettish-blue basal spot, but in the hindwing only traces of blue in the basal portion. Otherwise the female is the same as that of bazalus, but the singla are apparently much rarer.[3]

References

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  1. ^ de Nicéville , L. 1885. Descriptions of some New Indian Rhopalocera. J. Asiatic. Soc. Beng. 54: 117-124, 1 pl
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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