Arhopala philander explained

Arhopala philander, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Australasian realm.^[1]

Subspecies

• A. p. philander Obi, Bachan, Halmahera, Gebe, Sanghihe -looks beneath almost like a small tyrannus, but the postmedian band of the hindwing beneath is before the base of the little tail curved towards the hind-margin which it almost reaches. The spots and bands are distinctly light-edged. Distinguished from the similar meander by the uniformly brown under surface with a narrower transverse band, from hylander by the transverse band in the hindwing not being flawed.^[2]
• A. p. leander (Evans, 1957) New Guinea, Aru, Misool, Waigeu, Geelvink Bay, Karkar Island
• A. p. ander (Evans, 1957) ^[3] New Guinea
• A. p. pratti (Evans, 1957) Mioswar Island
• A. p. gander (Evans, 1957) Fergusson Island
• A. p. meeki (Evans, 1957) New Hanover
• A. p. gazella Fruhstorfer, 1914 Witu Island, New Britain -exhibits more brightly blue-coloured males, and the under-surface is of a deeper red-brown with a slight violet or purple reflection, the metallic spots of the anal region are of a magnificent emerald-green gloss.
• A. p. eichhorn i (Evans, 1957) New Ireland

External links

• Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.

Notes and References

1. D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.
2. Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
3. Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141