Arhopala florinda is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1896. It is found in the Australasian realm where it is endemic to the Solomon Islands.[2]
| Arhopala florinda | |
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| Arhopala florinda pagenstecheri in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1899 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. florinda
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| Binomial name | |
| Arhopala florinda (Grose-Smith, 1896)[1]
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Description
editMale above bright blue with a broad black margin of the wings and black veins the distal margin of the blue area in the hindwing dentate at the veins; the tail broader than in the other species.Under surface deep blackish-brown with a broad, white band with a slight brownish-grey touch, being in the hindwing of a uniform width, whilst in the forewing it begins somewhat narrower at the inner-margin and grows continually narrower anteriorly as far as vein 6. The rings at the border of the hindwing large and distinct, of a silvery blue, coherent, the black spots large; the three posterior ones smaller. Solomon Islands. — pagenstecheri Ribbe 142 h) from the Bismarck archipelago (New Pomerania) differs by a somewhat lighter blue and a narrower black margin above and by exhibiting a large white spot at the costal margin and at the base of the inner margin in the hindwing, and besides by the white band of the forewing beneath extending a little more anteriorly.[3]
Subspecies
edit- A. f. florinda Guadalcanal
- A. f. pagenstecheri (Ribbe, 1899) New Britain
References
edit- ^ Grose-Smith, H. 1896 Descriptions of Two new Species of Oriental Lycaenidae Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 18 (104) : 155-156
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
- ^ 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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- "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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