Surendra florimel

Surendra florimel is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in South-East Asia.

Surendra florimel
Male from southern Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Surendra
Species:	S. florimel
Binomial name
Surendra florimel Doherty, 1889
Synonyms
Surendra stimula de Nicéville, [1895]

Range

Southern Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Nias and Borneo.[1][2]

Description

In the male, the wings above are deep shining purplish blue, with a black apical border on the forewing, and on the hindwing both the costal and inner margins are broadly black bordered. The female is plain brown, with diffuse darker borders. The underside is brown, with a darker brown band across the wing from apex to the middle of the dorsum.

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  Male, underside, southern Thailand
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  Female, upperside, southern Thailand
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  Female, underside, southern Thailand
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  Male Courvoisier Collection, Basel

Cited references

1. Seki Y. Butterflies of Borneo, Volume 2, No. 1, 1991.
2. Eliot J.N., in The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th Edition.