• Source: Arhopala florinda

Arhopala florinda is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1896. It is found in the Australasian realm where it is endemic to the Solomon Islands.




Description


Male above bright blue with a broad black margin of the wings and black veins
the distal margin of the blue area in the hindwing dentate at the veins; the tail broader than in the other species.Under surface deep blackish-brown with a broad, white band with a slight brownish-grey touch, being in the hindwing of a uniform width, whilst in the forewing it begins somewhat narrower at the inner-margin and grows continually narrower anteriorly as far as vein 6. The rings at the border of the hindwing large and distinct, of a silvery blue, coherent, the black spots large; the three posterior ones smaller. Solomon
Islands. — pagenstecheri Ribbe 142 h) from the Bismarck archipelago (New Pomerania) differs by a somewhat lighter blue and a narrower black margin above and by exhibiting a large white spot at the costal margin and at the base of the inner margin in the hindwing, and besides by the white band of the forewing beneath extending a little more anteriorly.




Subspecies


A. f. florinda Guadalcanal
A. f. pagenstecheri (Ribbe, 1899) New Britain




References






External links



"Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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• Daftar kupu-kupu Jepang
• Arhopala florinda
• Arhopala
• Arhopala pagenstecheri
• List of butterflies of the Solomon Islands
• List of butterflies of Papua New Guinea
• List of butterflies of Japan
• List of butterflies of Australia
• List of butterflies of the Korean Peninsula