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

by Stefan Schröder

 

Hypolycaena phorbas (Fabricius, 1775)

ssp. silo Fruhstorfer, 1912
latostrigatus Van Eecke, 1915
pseudophorbas Fruhstorfer, [1914]
phorbanta Rothschild, 1916
walteri Fruhstorfer, [1916a]
ssp. dictaea C. & R. Felder, 1865

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: A common species. Widely distributed in some subspecies.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: ssp. dictaea: Waigeo Island; Batanta Island; Salawati Island; Misool Island. ssp. silo: Supiori Island; Biak Island, Japen Island: Waropen; Mioswaar Island; Roon Island; New Guinea: Duebei (Arfak Mts.), Fakfak, Kloofbivak, Manokwari, Mappi, Merauke, Mimika, Nabire, Sarmi, Sorong, Walmak, Wandammen Peninsula, Warkapi. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Aru Islands, Papua New Guinea, North Australia.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Cassidy, A.C. & A. Rawlins, 2011. On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zookeys 115: 53-84.
Parson, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.