Arhopala singla explained

Arhopala singla, the pointed oakblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville in 1885. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Northwest India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, and Southwest China).[1]

Description

Very closely allied to bazalus, beneath almost the same, but the forewing of the male exhibits a black cell-end spot and behind it another dentiform spot projecting into the blue disc. The female hasin the forewing a large violettish-blue basal spot, but in the hindwing only traces of blue in the basal portion.Otherwise the female is the same as that of bazalus, but the singla are apparently much rarer.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. [Adalbert Seitz|Seitz, A.]
  2. Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln