Arhopala alesia explained

Arhopala alesia, the pallid oakblue, (sometimes in Amblypodia) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description

The forewing length is about 18mm.Beneath quite similar to oberthuri, but with a long tail on the hindwing. The female is above light greenish-blue.^[1]

Subspecies

At least 5 subspecies are listed:^[2]

• A. a. alesia
• A. a. wimberleyi (de Nicéville, 1887)
• A. a. sacharja Fruhstorfer, 1914
• A. a. mio (Hayashi, 1981)
• A. a. soloni M. & T. Okano, 1995

Range

The butterfly occurs in India in the Andamans and from Dawnas to southern Myanmar.^[3]

The nominotypical subspecies is distributed on Bohol, Luzon, Marinduque, Mindoro, Mindanao & Tawitawi Islands. The subspecies soloni is on Leyte Island. The subspecies mio is found on Negros Island.

Status

William Harry Evans described the species as rare in 1932.^[3]

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

Cited references

1. Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
2. Web site: Savela . Markku . Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . 30 August 2019.
3. Book: Evans . William Harry Evans

   . W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 . 266, ser no H49.49 .

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 . 15 October 2016 .
• Book: Evans . William Harry Evans

. W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 .

• Book: Haribal, Meena . The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History . Gangtok, Sikkim, India . Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation . 1992 .
• Treadaway, Colin G., 1955: "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands". Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 14: 7–118.
• Treadaway, Colin G. & Schrőder, Heinz G., 2012: "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.
• Book: Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander . Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth

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