| Arhopala singla | |
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| Arhopala singla, female, male, Sikkim, from original description. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. singla |
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| Arhopala singla (de Nicéville, 1885) | |
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).
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 has in 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.
References
- de Nicéville , L. 1885. Descriptions of some New Indian Rhopalocera. J. Asiatic. Soc. Beng. 54: 117-124, 1 pl
- Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
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| Arhopala singla |
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