Arhopala agelastus is a species of butterfly belong to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. It is found in Southeast Asia (Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore and ssp. perissa Doherty, 1889 Burma, Mergui and Thailand)[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. agelastus
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| Arhopala agelastus | |
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Male above deep glossy ultramarine blue; under surface almost exactly like that of perissa [now subspecies] which may be only a hardly separable form of it, but the postmedian band of the forewing beneath is not so uniform, more distinctly composed of separate spots. Hereby perissa is very similar to [related] forms which are difficult to separate from this species.[3]
Subspecies
edit- Arhopala agelastus agelastus (Peninsular Malaysia, Langkawi, Singapore)
- Arhopala agelastus perissa Doherty, 1889 (southern Burma, Mergui, southern Thailand)
References
edit- ^ Hewitson, W. C. (1862). Specimen of a catalogue of Lycænidæ in the British Museum. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 12.
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
- ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
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External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Arhopala agelastus.
- "Arhopala Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
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