Arhopala chamaeleona

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Arhopala chamaeleona is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. It is found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.[2]

Arhopala chamaeleona mizunumai, ♂
Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Pancrustacea
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
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Arhopala chamaeleona
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. chamaeleona
Binomial name
Arhopala chamaeleona
Synonyms
  • Arhopala elagabulus Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Arhopala restricta Rothschild, 1916
  • Arhopala heliogabulus Seitz, 1926
  • Narathura maputi Takanami, 1984
  • Narathura mizunumai H. Hayashi, 1978
  • Arhopala rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922
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Description

Both wings deep metallic green, shading to brown in some lights.Hindwing being green almost to the margin. Below, uniform brown, no white areas: hindwing under with well-developed tornal metallic scaling.[3][4] [5] Form restricta Above, brown-black, forewings violet-blue on basal 3/4 }}

Subspecies

  • A. c. chamaeleona (Biak, Noemfoor, Jobi, New Guinea)
  • A. c. rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Serang)
  • A. c. mizunumai (Hayashi, 1978) (Philippines: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Marinduque)
  • A. c. maputi (Takanami, 1984) (Philippines: Marinduque)
  • A. c. susyae Tennent & Rawlins, 2010 (Moluccas)

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