Surendra florimel

Surendra florimel
	Male from southern Thailand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Surendra
Species:	S. florimel
Binomial name
	Surendra florimel; Doherty, 1889
Synonyms
	Surendra stimula de Nicéville, [1895];

Surendra florimel, the Eastern acacia blue a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in South-East Asia.

Range

Southern Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Nias and Borneo.^[1]^[2]

Description

In the male, the wings above are deep shining purplish blue, with a black apical border on the forewing, and on the hindwing both the costal and inner margins are broadly black bordered. The female is plain brown, with diffuse darker borders. The underside is brown, with a darker brown band across the wing from apex to the middle of the dorsum.

Male, underside, southern Thailand
Female, upperside, southern Thailand
Female, underside, southern Thailand
Male Courvoisier Collection, Basel

References

^ Seki Y. Butterflies of Borneo, Volume 2, No. 1, 1991.
^ Eliot J.N., in The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th Edition.

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[Seki-1] Seki Y. Butterflies of Borneo, Volume 2, No. 1, 1991.

[Eliot,_1992-2] Eliot J.N., in The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th Edition.

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