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

by Stefan Schröder

Hypochrysops heros Grose-Smith, 1894

ssp. heros Grose-Smith, 1894
mioswara Bethune-Baker, 1913
echo Sands, 1986
ssp. polemon (Fruhstorfer, 1915)

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Extremely rare.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: ssp. heros: Mioswaar Island; New Guinea: Humboldt Bay; ssp. polemon: Kloofbivak. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Parson, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
Sands, D.P.A., 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. and R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomonograph 7: 1-116.