Biology:Arhopala paramuta

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Arhopala paramuta
Dark Himalayan Oakblue Arhopala paramuta at Jayanti, Duars, West Bengal W IMG 5464 - cropped.jpg
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Arhopala paramuta Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. paramuta
Binomial name
Arhopala paramuta
(de Nicéville, [1884])
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia paramuta
  • Panchala paramuta de Nicéville, [1884]
  • Narathura amantes
  • Darasana newara Moore, 1884

Arhopala paramuta, the hooked oakblue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.[1][2] It is found in South-East Asia (see subspecies section).[1]

Description

Still much smaller than japonica (only about 35 mm),but easily discernible by the more dark blue colouring above which is very much reduced in the forewing by the very broad black distal margin, whilst in the hindwing it only covers yet the centre of the wing. Beneath the hindwing exhibits 4 distinct parallel macular bands. The imagines fly in Nepal, Assam, and Sikkim in the mountains, in the latter country they are not rare.[3]

Subspecies

  • Arhopala paramuta paramuta (Assam, Sikkim, Burma, northern Thailand, southern China)
  • Arhopala paramuta horishana (Taiwan)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Arhopala paramuta (de Nicéville, 1884)" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/1927043. 
  2. "Arhopala paramuta (De Nicéville, 1884) | Species" (in en). https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/281529. 
  3. Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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