Esakiozephyrus bieti

Indian purple hairstreak
	Upperside on left, underside on right
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Esakiozephyrus
Species:	E. bieti
Binomial name
	Esakiozephyrus bieti; (Oberthür, 1886)

Esakiozephyrus bieti, the Indian purple hairstreak,^[1]^[2] is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Taxonomy

The butterfly was previously classified as Thecla bieti de Nicéville.^[3]

The butterfly occurs in India from Kulu to Garhwal, Sikkim to Bhutan.^[3] It is also found in China, Tibet, and north west Yunnan.^[1]

In 1932 William Harry Evans described the species as rare and very rare in Kumaon.^[3]

Charles Oberthür dedicated the species to missionary and naturalist Félix Biet.

^ ^a ^b "Esakiozephyrus Shirôzu & Yamamoto, 1956" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Esakiozephyrus bieti". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 249, ser no H41.2.

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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