Flos fulgida
Species of butterfly
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Flos fulgida, the shining plushblue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm, including India. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863.[2][3] It is tailed. The underhind dark basal area is continued as a band to the mid-costa.
| Shining plushblue | |
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| F. f. singhapura from the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Flos |
| Species: | F. fulgida |
| Binomial name | |
| Flos fulgida | |
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Subspecies
- F. f. fulgida Sikkim, Assam – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
- F. f. singhapura (Distant, 1885) Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo
- F. f. zilana (Fruhstorfer, 1900) Philippines (Basilan, Mindoro)