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The Blues (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae) of Papua Indonesia

by Stefan Schröder

 

Arhopala adherbal Grose-Smith, 1902

appianus Grose-Smith, 1902

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Not a common species. It is characterized by a strong, rounded, submarginal dark patch on the hind-wing underside in cells 4 and 5. Separation from the closely related A. kiriwini Bethune-Baker, 1903 is based on characters of the forewing postmedian band which is inclined towards the discocellular spot, often touching it and the cell spots being outlined with some metallic blue scales (Parsons, 1998: 388).

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Waigeo Island; Japen Island; New Guinea: Sarmi, Sorong, Timika. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Halmahera, Aru Islands, Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Parsons, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
Schröder, S., 2015. The Arhopala centaurus-group of Evans (1957) in Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). SUGAPA (Suara Serangga Papua) 9(1): 1-22.