Arhopala paraganesa
Species of butterfly
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Arhopala paraganesa, the dusky bushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1882. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
| Dusky bushblue | |
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| Arhopala paraganesa dusunensis from the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. paraganesa |
| Binomial name | |
| Arhopala paraganesa (de Nicéville, 1882)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
As the name indicates, it is above already very similar to ganesa (Vol. I. the above violettish blue with a broad black marginal band; beneath the spots and bands are deep chocolate brown, encircled with white, and situate on a dull earth-brown ground which is whitish in some places. — zephyretta Doh. represents the species in Assam; here both sexes are above quite blackish-brown, only in the area of the discal cell there is lustrous bluish colouring.[3]
Subspecies
- A. p. paraganesa (northern India, Nepal, Sikkim)
- A. p. zephyretta (Doherty, 1891) (Assam, northern Burma, central Burma, western Thailand)
- A. p. mendava Corbet, 1941 (Peninsular Malaysia)
- A. p. hammon Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Java)
- A. p. dusunensis Barlow, Banks & Holloway, 1971 (Borneo)
- A. p. tomokoae (Hayashi, 1976) (Philippines: Palawan)
- A. p. felipa Lamas, 2008 (Philippines: Palawan)
- A. p. insula Lamas, 2008 (Hainan)
