- Source: Arhopala admete
Arhopala admete is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in the Australasian realm,
Description
Beneath all the bands and spots are edged with a bright white on a red-brown ground. Recognizable by all the spots in the forewing being absent as far as the postmedian transverse band, except the cell-end spot; in the hindwing all the spots are very small. Above the
male is deep dark blue, the female black, the basal halves of the wings with a blue gloss.
Subspecies
A. a. admete Serang, Obi, Bachan, Halmahera
A. a. eucolpis (Kirsch, 1877) Waigeu, Misool, Jobi, West Irian - Papua, Goodenough, Yela, Tagula
A. a. sudesta (Evans, 1957)Tagula, Yela
References
External links
Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
