Arhopala aedias yendava explained

Arhopala aedias yendava, the Singapore oakblue,^[1] is a subspecies of Arhopala aedias a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

This beautiful species is above in both sexes dark lilac, the female with a black distal margin of an average width of 4 mm. The postmedian band of the forewdng is here also in the centre very much interrupted, but the two ends of the interruption are nevertheless contiguous, which is not the casein nominate aedias.^[2]

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim onto Myanmar.^{[1] [3]}

Status

Rare.^[3]

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Web site: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) . Beccaloni . George . Scoble . Malcolm . Kitching . Ian . Simonsen . Thomas . Robinson . Gaden . Pitkin . Brian . Hine . Adrian . Lyal . Chris . Natural History Museum, London . 2016-10-15 .
• Book: Haribal, Meena . The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History . Gangtok, Sikkim, India . Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation . 1992 .
• Web site: Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera .
• Book: Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander . Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth

. Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth . Butterflies of the Indian Region . 1957 . Bombay, India . . 978-8170192329 .

Notes and References

1. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Amblypodia.
2. Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
3. Book: Evans . William Harry Evans

   . W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 . 261, ser no H49.22.