Arhopala florinda is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1896. It is found in the Australasian realm where it is endemic to the Solomon Islands.[2]

Arhopala florinda
Arhopala florinda pagenstecheri in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1899
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. florinda
Binomial name
Arhopala florinda

Description

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Male above bright blue with a broad black margin of the wings and black veins the distal margin of the blue area in the hindwing dentate at the veins; the tail broader than in the other species.Under surface deep blackish-brown with a broad, white band with a slight brownish-grey touch, being in the hindwing of a uniform width, whilst in the forewing it begins somewhat narrower at the inner-margin and grows continually narrower anteriorly as far as vein 6. The rings at the border of the hindwing large and distinct, of a silvery blue, coherent, the black spots large; the three posterior ones smaller. Solomon Islands. — pagenstecheri Ribbe 142 h) from the Bismarck archipelago (New Pomerania) differs by a somewhat lighter blue and a narrower black margin above and by exhibiting a large white spot at the costal margin and at the base of the inner margin in the hindwing, and besides by the white band of the forewing beneath extending a little more anteriorly.[3]

Subspecies

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  • A. f. florinda Guadalcanal
  • A. f. pagenstecheri (Ribbe, 1899) New Britain

References

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  1. ^ Grose-Smith, H. 1896 Descriptions of Two new Species of Oriental Lycaenidae Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 18 (104) : 155-156
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
  3. ^ 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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