Arhopala buddha | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Arhopala |
Species: | A. buddha
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Binomial name | |
Arhopala buddha (
Bethune-Baker, 1903)
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Arhopala buddha is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. [2] It is found in Southeast Asia (Burma, Mergui, Peninsular Malaya, southern Thailand, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, Siberut, the Philippines and Java). [3]
Above lustrous light blue with a black marginal band in the male of more than 2 mm width, exhibits beneath the postmedian band of the forewing only feebly bent. [4]