Arhopala admete is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in the Australasian realm,[2]

Arhopala admete
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. admete
Binomial name
Arhopala admete
(Hewitson, 1863)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia admete Hewitson, [1863]

Description

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Beneath all the bands and spots are edged with a bright white on a red-brown ground. Recognizable by all the spots in the forewing being absent as far as the postmedian transverse band, except the cell-end spot; in the hindwing all the spots are very small. Above the male is deep dark blue, the female black, the basal halves of the wings with a blue gloss.[3]

Subspecies

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  • A. a. admete Serang, Obi, Bachan, Halmahera
  • A. a. eucolpis (Kirsch, 1877) Waigeu, Misool, Jobi, West Irian - Papua, Goodenough, Yela, Tagula
  • A. a. sudesta (Evans, 1957)Tagula, Yela

References

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  1. ^ Hewitson, 1863; Hewitson, 1869 Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae
  2. ^ D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.
  3. ^ Adalbert Seitz in Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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