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

by Stefan Schröder

 

Hypochrysops mioswara Bethune-Baker, 1913

endemic species!

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: A rare species.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Mioswaar Island; New Guinea: Katan, Mappi, Mt. Nomo. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: none.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Sands, D.P.A., 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. and R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomonograph 7: 1-116.