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.

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]

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

Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
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.
"Flos areste (Hewitson, 1862)" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 272, ser no H49.79.
Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

gollark: Testbot, take contingency ν-78.

gollark: Testbot, take <@435756251205468160>'s token.

gollark: Testbot, take the % operator.

gollark: Highly advanced, see.

gollark: It can count!

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.